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Semiliquid

Semiliquid \Sem`i*liq"uid\, a. Half liquid; semifluid.

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semiliquid

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

WordNet
semiliquid

adj. somewhat liquid

Usage examples of "semiliquid".

Even as they watched, clots of the semiliquid broke away and began to rise, strings of matter stretching and snapping behind them.

Ray forced himself to look at the rapidly disappearing semiliquid, semisolid mass on the floor of the floater.

The rushing wall of superdense, semiliquid gases pushed a shock wave of compressed air ahead of it that knocked Duffy backward, away from the lever, and lifted the abandoned Work Bug and tossed it forward like a toy in a tornado.

The yolks resembled dulled, golden bullets while the whites were semiliquid, dappled with burned grease and speckled with fragments of broken shell.

When the semiliquid, sponged-filled fruit strikes the ground, it bounces or rolls a short distance until chemical sensors in the skin indicate an underlying soil type suitable for germination, whereupon the area of skin in contact with the ground decomposes, enabling the sponge to release its liquid content and seeds into the soil and begin its own slower process of decomposition.

She gasped as the egg splattered into her eyes, throwing her free hand up to try to wipe away the semiliquid mass blinding her as Shada hit her safety-line feed release again and vaulted up onto the rooftop.

Side openings occurred, and the red rock flowed from them like a steaming avalanche, occasionally breaking loose whole sides of the mountain in a semiliquid, fiery hot gel called pyroclastic flow.