Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants.
- adjective Biology Living or growing on land or on or in the ground; not aquatic, arboreal, or epiphytic.
- adjective Astronomy Similar to the planet earth in size or composition.
- adjective Transmitted from structures on the earth and not involving satellites.
- adjective Archaic Of or relating to the earth rather than heaven.
- noun An inhabitant of the earth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly: opposed to celestial: as, terrestrial bodies; terrestrial magnetism.
- Representing or consisting of the earth: as, a or the terrestrial globe. See
globe , 4. - Pertaining to the world or to the present state; sublunary; worldly; mundane.
- Pertaining to or consisting of land, as opposed to water, or of earth.
- In zoology, living on the ground; confined to the ground; not aquatic, arboreal, or aërial; terricolous.
- In botany, growing on land, not aquatic; growing in the ground, not on trees.
- noun An inhabitant of the earth.
- noun plural In zoology: A section of the class Aves, the Terrestres.
- noun The pulmonate gastropods.
- noun A division of isopods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly.
- adjective Representing, or consisting of, the earth.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane.
- adjective Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like.
- adjective Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth.
- noun An inhabitant of the earth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
inhabitant of theplanet Earth . - noun botany A
ground-dwelling plant . - adjective Of, relating to, or inhabiting the land of the
Earth or its inhabitants. - adjective Of, relating to, or composed of land.
- adjective Living or growing in or on land (as opposed to other habitat); not
aquatic , etc. - adjective astronomy Of a
planet , being composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals; see alsoterrestrial planet . - adjective Concerned with the world or
worldly matters. - adjective Mormonism Of or pertaining to the second highest
degree of glory .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective operating or living or growing on land
- adjective of this earth
- adjective concerned with the world or worldly matters
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
- adjective of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Certain terrestrial plants for certain temperature zones.
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Certain terrestrial plants for certain temperature zones.
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Subsea systems typically have subsea optical amplifiers and submarine line terminal equipment (SLTE) located in terrestrial landing stations and connected to the either end of the amplifier chain.
Infinera Aims to Give Undersea Fiber Networks a Makeover 2009
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EVDO Rev. A has a top speed of something like 3+ Mbps in terrestrial uses with 1.25 MHz of spectrum allocated.
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Turner Laing said Sky1, Sky Living and Sky Atlantic will have slots 106, 107 and 108 – right after the five main terrestrial channels - so Sky can "highlight for our customers the best of entertainment pay at the top of the EPG".
Eddie Izzard to play Long John Silver in Sky's Treasure Island Tara Conlan 2010
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Currently available online and landing in terrestrial record stores next week, Lil Wayne's latest proves that even at half-throttle, his cosmic croak remains effective both in deep space and between the sheets.
Really quick spins: Gucci Mane, Lil Boosie, Lil Wayne, Pimp C, Waka Flocka Flame Chris Richards 2010
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As for big Telescopes, Roger Angel, director of the Steward Observatory, and builder of most of the large mirrors used in terrestrial telescopes today wrote a paper and did a preliminary design of a ten meter optical telescope that would be assembled at ISS for a fraction of the cost of JWST.
Astronauts Once Again Demonstrate Why Humans Must be a Part of Space Exploration - NASA Watch 2009
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If we were to spend some of those tax dollars (and private sector investments) on pursuing the possibility of using Helium-3 mined on the Moon in terrestrial fusion plants, we'd be developing the most eco-friendly energy system ever devised.
Former NAC Chair Jack Schmitt Quits Planetary Society Over New Roadmap - NASA Watch 2008
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They might have evolved viviparity, but I personally favour the idea that they were still oviparous and that females laid eggs in terrestrial nests.
My party and those marvellous metriorhynchids Darren Naish 2006
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But these resilient insects, now found in terrestrial ecosystems the world over, apparently began to diversify only about 100 million years ago in concert with the flowering plants, the scientists say.
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