terrestrial

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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adjective of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; - L.C.Eiseley
adjective operating or living or growing on land

From Middle English terrestrialle, from terrestre or Latin terrestris, from terra (“land, earth, ground”), with the suffix -al.

=terrestre=, relating to land, terrestrial. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. — Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne

tellurian, telluric, terrene

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