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Semifluid

Semifluid \Sem`i*flu"id\, a. Imperfectly fluid. -- n. A semifluid substance.

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semifluid

a. Having properties intermediate between liquids and solids n. Any substance with properties intermediate between those of a solid and a liquid.

Usage examples of "semifluid".

Its fiber contents are semifluid and can be forced out as muscle plasma by pressure, leaving a residue of sarcolemma, connective tissue, keratin, mucin, nuclein, and so on.

In the oversize doorways lay huge snakes, big crabs with oversize claws, and semifluid horrors like giant jellyfish.

Then the viewer crackled with static and the ship lurched violently as it penetrated the upper cloud layer and began its descent into the semifluid darkness.

Duffy slogged down the flooded corridor at the fastest pace he could manage, his muscles burning with fatigue as he forced himself forward through the thick semifluid hydrogen.

Duffy felt the tremendous pressure of the semifluid hydrogen that filled the ship crushing down on him.

He dived to his left, tackling Abramowitz as the turbolift doors bulged outward and a jet of superheated semifluid hydrogen began flooding into the corridor.

A double-helical latticework of light descended like a ladder from the semifluid darkness into the narrow crawlspace, where it slowly grew and began to rotate on its vertical axis in front of Soloman.

The arm and hatchet collapsed to the floor in a sudden spatter of clear, semifluid gelatin, the remnants of spirit-flesh when the spirit was gone, ectoplasm that would swiftly evaporate.

When the cloudy, viscous semifluid on the watch glass began to move itself he knew he was on the right track.

It is sometimes so fluid as to be capable of forming in drops, sometimes semifluid, sometimes almost solid.

Nourishment, assimilated through the red trumpet-like appendages on one of the great flexible limbs, was always semifluid and in many aspects wholly unlike the food of existing animals.

Adjacent geographical masses would push in to fill the vacuum, just as the underlying, restless, semifluid magma would push up.

Its fiber contents are semifluid and can be forced out as muscle plasma by pressure, leaving a residue of sarcolemma, connective tissue, keratin, mucin, nuclein, and so on.