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Definition of Semiterrestrial
1. Adjective. Chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial.
Definition of Semiterrestrial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semiterrestrial
Literary usage of Semiterrestrial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"The whole phenomenon indicates a cooperative process which is probably economical
of nutritive functions in the semiterrestrial conditions under which plas- ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1906)
"... is found a group of small, semiterrestrial, slender-tailed squirrels which
externally, including the color-pattern, seem hardly distinguishable "from ..."
3. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1917)
"... the creeping or semiterrestrial mode of life. From these evolve the forms
specialized for the floating pelagic habit, namely, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1856)
"... those which are semiterrestrial possess them in but a rudimentary condition.
They differ from the short ..."
5. Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1897)
"... and attracting the notice of every traveller by its semiterrestrial habits
and by the astonishing rapidity with which it leaps, frog-like, ..."
6. Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, William Forsell Kirby (1897)
"... and attracting the notice of every traveller by its semiterrestrial habits
and by the astonishing rapidity with which it leaps, frog-like, ..."
7. Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, William Forsell Kirby (1897)
"... of every traveller by its semiterrestrial habits and by the astonishing rapidity
with which it leaps, frog-like, over the mud-flats of the littoral. ..."
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