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Definition of Semiwild
1. somewhat wild [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semiwild
Literary usage of Semiwild
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Venezuela: Geographical Sketch, Natural Resources, Laws, Economic Conditions by Nicolás Veloz Goiticoa (1904)
"... imported by the Spaniards at the beginning of the sixteenth century, which
has now attained a semiwild state on the plains, the ass of the same origin, ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"One therefore finds that a great many of the various nuts obtained in China have
been collected from trees and shrubs in a wild or semiwild state. ..."
3. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The plant occurs semiwild in North Africa and southern Europe and on coasts of
the Channel and North Sea. nearly always near towns and in hedges. ..."
4. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"The plant occurs in a cultivated or semiwild state throughout the tropical regions
of both hemispheres. ..."
5. Domesticated Animals and Plants: A Brief Treatise Upon the Origin and by Eugene Davenport (1910)
"The pig in domestication is generally quiet and harmless, but he is capable of
a good fight, and in the semiwild state a drove of hogs is an enemy more ..."
6. A Manual of Farm Grasses by Albert Spear Hitchcock (1921)
"A variety of sorghum escaped from cultivation in Louisiana and growing in a
semiwild state is called chicken corn. Common Names. ..."
7. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1853)
"... and in all probability were nothing more than strayed domestic cattle, which,
in the course of years, had lapsed into a semiwild state. ..."
8. Conservation and Development of Nontimber Forest Products in the Pacific edited by Bettina Von Hagen, James F. Weigand, Rebecca McLain, Roger Fight (1998)
"... production of nontimber forest products and timber is an economically viable
management strategy under wild, semiwild, and domesticated conditions. ..."
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