semiflint noun2 •Maize or corn that is a hybrid where one parent species is flint and the other has a soft outer hull.Although its influence is clearly visible in many Criollo semiflints collected in 1954, "Maiz Gibara" is not popular with the small farmer who grows corn for home consumption. — 1957 •Clay that is hard rather than plastic but that lacks the conchoidal fracture pattern of flint.The calory- temperature curve for the flints and semiflints resembled one another very closely. The semiflints required a little greater heat to 1000°C. — 1927 formssemiflints
