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semi-ˈferal, a.
[semi- 2; cf. L. sēmifer, and see feral a.2, ferine.]
Half-wild.
1887Flower in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 774/1 The semiferal pigs of New Granada. 1906Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 4/1 A stag in Warnham Park, one of a semi-feral herd.
So ˌseˈmiferine, semiferous (rare—0) adjs.
1854Keightley Mythol. (ed. 3) 233 The she-dragon Delphýné, a *semi-ferine maid. 1858Gladstone Homer III. 605 [Achilles] is represented as having owed everything to the peculiar training of Chiron; whose semi-ferine life he shared. 1656Blount Glossogr., Semiferous, half wilde. |