| 单词 | semidouble |
| 释义 | semidouble in American English (ˌsɛmɪˈdʌbəl) adjective having more than the normal numbers of petals, ray flowers, etc., but not enough to completely conceal the stamens and pistils semidouble in American English (ˌsemiˈdʌbəl, ˌsemai-) adjective Botany having more petals than those of a single flower but fewer than those of a double flower Word origin [1970–75; semi- + double]This word is first recorded in the period 1970–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Heimlich maneuver, New Age, consciousness-raising, postmodernism, relational databasesemi- is a combining form borrowed from Latin, meaning “half,” freely prefixed to Englishwords of any origin, now sometimes with the senses “partially,” “incompletely,” “somewhat”.Other words that use the affix semi- include: semiautomatic, semidetached, semimonthly, semisophisticatedExamples of 'semidouble' in a sentence |
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