Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Composed of land and water.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of land and water, as the globe or earth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of land and water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Comprising both land and water, like the Earth.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon."
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"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon."
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"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon."
Lovecraft in the Classroom : The Lovecraft News Network 2009
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"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon."
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"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon."
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"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon."
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"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon."
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"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon."
Cthulhu vs. God in Nintendo's Scribblenauts : The Lovecraft News Network 2009
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"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon."
Bohemian Grove Cult of Lovecraftian Proportions : The Lovecraft News Network 2009
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"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon."
yarb commented on the word terraqueous
Yes, the terraqueous globe!
September 29, 2007
palooka commented on the word terraqueous
Beautiful word yarb. Composed of land and water.
September 30, 2007
reesetee commented on the word terraqueous
Nice! I like it!
September 30, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word terraqueous
It is indeed a slick, lovely word. Here's a usage I just found:
"'...why, you are tempted to ask yourself whether these are not mere irresponsible childish fribbles...'
"'Fribble yourself,' murmured the gunroom steward the other side of the door...
"'...or weathercocks. But then you reflect that these same people circumnavigate the entire terraqueous globe, sometimes in trying circumstances, which argues a certain constancy.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 259
February 23, 2008
gregmiller commented on the word terraqueous
"Nor can I say, that mankind have been more happy in their civil lot, and in the administration of their temporal affairs; which are almost every where in a wretched situation, and they themselves under the iron hand of the oppressor. The whole terraqueous globe cannot shew five free kingdoms; nor perhaps half so many kings, who make the ease and prosperity of their people their care."
--Cato's Letter No. 48
December 24, 2008