terrestrial

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Also known as the terrestrial hermit crab, they are also called robber crabs and palm thief crabs, evidently because they have a habit of stealing shiny things, much like my toddler son.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants.
  2. adjective Having a worldly, mundane character or quality.
  3. adjective Of, relating to, or composed of land.

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  • But if I'm not mistaken I was the first to even suggest an extra-terrestrial origin for the Robot Aliens. —  Wonder Story Annual - 1950
  • "There must be a terrestrial, that is, psychological in nature, rather than extraterrestrial origin to the abduction experience," he says. —  Omni: Winter 1995
  • Also known as the terrestrial hermit crab, they are also called robber crabs and palm thief crabs, evidently because they have a habit of stealing shiny things, much like my toddler son. —  Ugly Overload
  • In them the nature of celestial, terrestrial, and infernal beings is laid open. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
  • Uncounted ages gone Burst full and glorious on my wondering eyes Sun-clear the world around, and far away A boundless future sweeps in golden day J. G. PERCIVAL TWO PICTURES The glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.'--ST. —  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Latin terrestris, from terra, earth; see ters- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English terrestriall, from Old French terrestrial, from Latin terrestris, of or belonging to the earth (see terrestre), + -al.
 

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/tɛˈrɛstriəl/
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