semi-trailing

Having stems thick enough to stand somewhat erect, but eventually drooping like a vine.

The latter method must be used for some varieties that are semi-trailing and for the frankly trailing sorts, such as the dewberry and youngberry.

'Marion's Enchanted Trail' ( Pittman ) tends more toward the semi-trailing type, freely producing many crowns from which absolute masses of medium blue blooms are produced.

Having a movement that pivots on an access which is at an angle between longitudinal and transverse.

semi-trailing arm suspension

Swivelling of these semi-trailing arms is therefore neither true transverse or true trailing but is a combination of both.

Having an opening syllable that is the continuation of a preceding line and including a syntactic break such as a comma or full stop somewhere after that but before the end.

I have already pointed out a tendency in the semi-trailing and trailing types for attention to be drawn subtly to the switched pair of syllables; this illusory trochaic framework serves at least in the trailing type to focus attention still more on that pair, as a switch. In the few examples we have of the semi-trailing type, the same effect is not always as clear.