Terrestrial

What do we mean by terrestrial?

Of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants. adjective

Living or growing on land or on or in the ground; not aquatic, arboreal, or epiphytic. adjective

Similar to the planet earth in size or composition. adjective

Transmitted from structures on the earth and not involving satellites. adjective

Of or relating to the earth rather than heaven. adjective

An inhabitant of the earth. noun

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.

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. noun

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

An inhabitant of the planet Earth.

Words that are spelled similarly to terrestrial:
terrestrial, terrestrify, terrestris, terrestrials.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word terrestrial:
gastropod, mollusk, mollusc, omnivorous, tuber, magnetism, wading, slugs, plump, steppes, locomotion, vertebrates, arboreal, extravagant, snails, endemic, arthropods, carnivorous, aquatic, planets, hairy, polynesia, orchid, analogue, dull, vertebrate, deciduous, mammals, mammal, insects, taxonomy, amphibians, crabs, celestial, genus, satellite, feathers, channels, freshwater, nocturnal, birds, habits, predators, snail, fauna, reptiles, perennial, herb, uhf, species, altitudes, frogs, ecosystem, cable, jungle, extinct, biodiversity, organisms, snakes, fossils, vegetation, fairly, ecology, nest, madagascar, prey, television, broadcasting, marine, broadcaster, habitat, fossil, planet, channel, networks, wings, digital, moist, leaf, atmospheric, family, broad, feeding, animals, mars, globe, subspecies, allies, plants, transmission, analog, forests, genera, rocks, deposits, flora, occurs, broadcast, lifestyle, shell.

Words that rhyme with terrestrial:
extraterrestrial, estriol.

Adjectives that are often used to describe terrestrial:
solar, extra, aquatic, open, ancient, recent, non, cosmic, herbaceous.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective terrestrial:
ecosystems, animals, life, magnetism, globe, plants, planets, species, paradise, vertebrates, mammals, environment, systems, radiation, environments, forms, habitats, atmosphere, objects, vegetation, organisms, origin, world, conditions, bodies, rocks, existence, things, phenomena, sources, insects, matter, communities, sphere, surface, fauna, arthropods, biosphere, deposits, physics, orchids, channels, networks, animal, ecosystem, locomotion, television, gravity, field, elements, invertebrates, resources, birds, habitat, beings, applications, sediments, ball, broadcasting, creatures, network, space, links, equator, biota, evolution, telescope, isopods, crust, reptiles, predators, planet, habits, meridian, snails, carnivores, heat, gastropods, ecology, stations, waters, substances, globes, flora, plant, plane.

Words that sound like terrestrial:
terrestrial, terrestrials, terrestrially, trustful, tristful, trustable, tristram, trust fall, testicle, trestle, tressel, tonsorial, teresia, trester, transdermal, tressful, terrestrial time.