Terrestrial: Definition and part of speech

Terrestrial

  1. n. An inhabitant of the earth.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals.
  3. a. Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe.
  4. a. Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane.
  5. a. Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents.
  6. a. Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from an astronomical telescope.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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