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- semi- + dry (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It's a semidry rather than overtly sweet wine, and well-chilled it would be a very nice aperitif.”
The Wall Street Journal: Why You'll Be Drinking Moscato This Year
“These machines needed no wringers on top because they were built with an inner, perforated drum for spin-drying -- a process that uses centrifugal force to whirl the sopping clothes until they're semidry.”
“This provision would give the Congress power to enforce prohibition on a State against its will and also to provide regulatory provisions in favor of the liquor traffic in opposition to the laws of dry or semidry States.”
“Under proposed §3, This provision would give the Congress power to enforce prohibition on a State against its will and also to provide regulatory provisions in favor of the liquor traffic in opposition to the laws of dry or semidry States.”
“It evolved out of agricultural necessities imposed by a warm and semidry climate that by chance favored the growth of olive trees.”
“Most of the territory between Miami and Naples is Everglades, swamp broken up by small patches of semidry land.”
“In some semidry states, gas stations or grocers can sell beer, while only liquor stores may sell distilled spirits and wine.”
“Many new techniques were developed to suit various locations: ridge and ditch systems; semidry land; ditch manure pits; ditches with floating water; and rice-duckweed-fish systems.”
“This method was developed on the basis of a semidry cultivation method advocated by Hou Guangjun.”
“A semidry rice planted on raised ridges is combined with fish culture in the ditches.”
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