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TERRESTRIAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Operating or living or growing on land
Classified under:
Similar:
onshore (on the edge of the land)
overland (traveling or passing over land)
Antonym:
amphibious (operating or living on land and in water)
aquatic (operating or living or growing in water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of this earth
Example:
the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball
Synonyms:
sublunar; sublunary; terrestrial
Classified under:
Similar:
earthly (of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Concerned with the world or worldly matters
Example:
he developed an immense terrestrial practicality
Synonyms:
mundane; terrestrial
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
secular; temporal; worldly (characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
Example:
this terrestrial ball
Synonyms:
planetary; terrestrial
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
earth (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
Synonyms:
tellurian; telluric; terrene; terrestrial
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
earth (the solid part of the earth's surface)
Context examples:
In humans and other terrestrial animals, gut microbes play important roles in many aspects of health, including digestion, where they break down otherwise indigestible components.
(Whales may owe their efficient digestion to millions of tiny microbes, National Science Foundation)
This concentration is much drier than the driest terrestrial soil, and is consistent with earlier studies.
(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)
Liquid water would only be possible if the planet turns out to be terrestrial in nature, rather than resembling a small version of Neptune.
(Hubble Finds Water Vapor on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet for 1st Time, NASA)
It’s likely that the smallest of the terrestrial planets also experiences Mercury-quakes—something that may one day be confirmed by seismometers.
(The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All, NASA)
The findings revealed a diet based on the consumption of terrestrial proteins—plants, animal proteins, and dairy products—where seafood was absent.
(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)
They were recorded in the megahertz as well as gigahertz range, which is what you can find with terrestrial lightning emissions.
(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)
The solar wind of particles streaming off the sun helps drive flows and swirls in space as complicated as any terrestrial weather pattern.
(Messenger spots giant space weather effects at Mercury, NASA)
The process could lead to an activation of aeolian wind-borne transport in the region, with important implications for the biogeochemistry of downwind terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
A large terrestrial monkey found in Africa and Arabia, it is the largest non-hominid member of the primate order.
(Baboon, NCI Thesaurus)
This is the first evidence that terrestrial planets can form in orbits similar to Earth's, even in a binary star system where the stars are not very far apart.
(Newfound Frozen World Orbits in Binary Star System, NASA)
