Terrestrial

Quick meaning: Terrestrial is a noun meaning (botany) A ground-dwelling plant.

Meaning

(botany) A ground-dwelling plant.

More Meanings

1. Of, relating to, or inhabiting the land of the Earth or its inhabitants, earthly.
2. Of, relating to, or composed of land or earth.
3. Living or growing in or on land (as opposed to other habitat); not aquatic, not holoepiphytic, etc.
4. (astronomy) Of a planet, being composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals; see also terrestrial planet.
5. Concerned with the world or worldly matters.
6. (Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the second highest degree of glory.
7. Alternative letter-case form of Terrestrial (“Inhabitant of Earth”).

Example Sentences

a terrestrial plant

A genius bright and base, / Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims.

Microorganisms are the Cinderellas of terrestrial ecology — the majority of the Earth's biomass, yet barely catalogued.

quoted in 2022, C. F. G. Clark, The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country […] yet this stone [Cannock] is so Sulphurious and Terrestrial, not fit to make Iron; […]

Word Forms

• terrestrials

Synonyms for terrestrial

Depending on context, synonyms include earthly, planetary, tellurian, telluric, Terran, terrene.

Antonyms for terrestrial

Common opposites include aerial, aquatic, arboreal, epiphytic, celestial, spiritual.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include land, sublunar, terrene, earthly, telluric, sublunary.

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