Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Living on or in the ground.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Terrestrial; inhabiting the ground; not aquatic or aërial; specifically, belonging to the Terricolæ.
- In botany, same as
terricole .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Living in on, or near
ground .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Latin terricola, earth-dweller : terra, earth; see ters- in Indo-European roots + -cola, -colous.]
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Examples
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Nutritive value of terricolous lichens to reindeer in winter.
Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway 2010
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A terricolous vively-onview this; queer and it continues to be quaky.
Finnegans Wake 2006
fbharjo commented on the word terricolous
down to earth???
September 29, 2007
mercy commented on the word terricolous
Living on or in the ground.
Free dictionary
July 13, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word terricolous
"Critics and friends had already rebuked him for his honeyed volubility, and also that "nothing to say" which the terricolous Hardy suspected lay behind his ponderous, Tyrian diction."
The No Variations by Luis Chitarroni, translated by Darren Koolman, p 52
September 16, 2013