Synonyms:
tellurian, telluric, terrestrial, terrene
Meaning: of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
Synonyms:
planetary, terrestrial
Meaning: of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; "planetary rumblings and eructations"- L.C.Eiseley ; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball"
Usage examples
THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL DEPTHS
No paradise becomes terrestrial in our day.
"Sir, I should make a terrestrial paradise of it."
For light is common to terrestrial and celestial bodies.
I know of no aerolite that has ever been acceptably traced to terrestrial origin.
What kind of spectacle would its hidden hemisphere present to our terrestrial spheroid?
My body is no longer firm and terrestrial; it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised.
Who would ever have imagined, under this terrestrial crust, an ocean with ebbing and flowing tides, with winds and storms?"
Selenographic charts have been constructed with a perfection which equals, if it does not even surpass, that of our terrestrial maps.
When he dropped into the upper gallery he still felt as far from the terrestrial globe as if he had only dropped from the sun to the moon.