semi columnar (semikolumnar)

Like a half column; flat on one side and rounded on the other: applied in botany to a stem, leaf, or petiole. semi-complete (sem"ikom-plēt'), a. In entom., incomplete: applied by Linnæus and the older en tom ologists to pupæ which have only rudiments of wings, but otherwise resemble the imago, as in the Orthoptera, Hemipter a, etc. Semi-complete metamorphosis, metamorphosis in which the pupa is semi-complete. The terms incomplete and subincom IMG:content-0573.png:[merged small][graphic][merged small]