terrestre

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De l'influence de la lune sur l'atmosphère terrestre, etc. Bull.

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  1. Terrestrial; earthly. Heere may ye se, and heerby may ye preve, That wyf is mannes helpe and his confort, His Paradys terrestre. and his disport. Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, l. 88.

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  • Un homme venu d'une autre galaxie se crashe sur la Terre au temps des Vikings, amenant avec lui un prédateur extra-terrestre. —  Mininova
  • La società Virgin Galactic ha già firmato gli accordi necessari con cinque agenzie di viaggio per la vendita di biglietti che porteranno i turisti dello spazio circa 110 chilometri al di sopra della superficie terrestre iniziando nel Nuovo Messico e proseguendo in Svezia. —  Zeus News
  • "Conveniently in Latin," says Chivian -- deciphered by Verne's protagonist, Professor Lidenbrock, which reads in part, "descende, Audax viator, et terrestre centrum attinges." —  SpaceRef Top Stories
  • Uno sceriffo extraterrestre ... poco extra e molto terrestre [XviD Ita AC3] Bud Spencer [TNT Village]
  • Paradys terrestre, as wise men seyn, is the highest place of erthe, that is in alle the world: and it is so highe, that it touchethe nyghe to the cercle of the mone, there as the mone makethe hire torn. —  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French (and F.) terrestre = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian terrestre, from Latin terrestris, of or belonging to the earth, from terra, earth: see terra. Cf. terrestrial.
 

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