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terrestrial

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1. terrestrial - Noun

2. terrestrial - Adjective

3. terrestrial - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals.

Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe.

Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane.

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.

Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from an astronomical telescope.

An inhabitant of the earth.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Stephen Hawking

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. Ogden Nash

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed. Jules Verne

We're beings toward death, we're ... two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. Cornel West

What are the Qualifications of a Secretary of State? He ought to be a Man of universal Reading in Laws, Governments, History. Our whole terrestrial Universe ought to be summarily comprehended in his Mind. John Adams

Sandra let her words fly on an arrow of certainty. "I know the whereabouts of a bona fide extra terrestrial." Vanna Bonta

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