semi-trailing
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a movement that pivots on an access which is at an angle between longitudinal and transverse.
Example Sentences
- "The latter method must be used for some varieties that are semi-trailing and for the frankly trailing sorts, such as the dewberry and youngberry."
- "'Marion's Enchanted Trail' ( Pittman ) tends more toward the semi-trailing type, freely producing many crowns from which absolute masses of medium blue blooms are produced."
- "This plant is semi-trailing and cold-hardy."
- "The semi-trailing thornless blackberries may not qualify for a place in your home garden or landscape if you are unwilling to make a slight compromise on flavor."
- "semi-trailing arm suspension"
- "Swivelling of these semi-trailing arms is therefore neither true transverse or true trailing but is a combination of both."