Synonyms for terrestrial
təˈrɛs tri əlter·res·tri·al

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1. terrestrialnoun

   Synonyms:
   telluric, Terran, tellurian, planetary, terrene

2. terrestrialadjective

   An inhabitant of the planet Earth.

   Synonyms:
   Earthman, planetary, landAdjective, tellurian, Terran, sublunary, earthly, worldly, mundane, telluric, Earthwoman, earthling, terrene

3. terrestrialadjective

   A ground-dwelling plant.

   Synonyms:
   earthly, sublunary, landAdjective, terrene, Terran, planetary, mundane, worldly, telluric, tellurian

   Antonyms:
   aerial

4. terrestrialadjective

   Living or growing in or on land (as opposed to other habitat); not aquatic, etc.

   a terrestrial plant

   Synonyms:
   planetary, worldly, telluric, tellurian, earthly, terrene, Terran, sublunary, mundane, landAdjective

5. terrestrialadjective

   Concerned with the world or worldly matters.

   Synonyms:
   earthly, tellurian, sublunary, terrene, Terran, telluric, mundane, worldly, planetary, landAdjective

   Antonyms:
   spiritual, celestial

6. terrestrialadjective

   Of or pertaining to the second highest degree of glory.

   Synonyms:
   terrene, earthly, sublunary, Terran, worldly, mundane, landAdjective, tellurian, planetary, telluric

7. terrestrialadjective

   Antonyms:
   arboreal, aquatic, aerial, epiphytic

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1. terrestrial

   Synonyms:
   earthly, sublunary, worldly, mundane, terrene

   Antonyms:
   celestial, infernal, aquatic, aqueous

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1. tellurian, telluric, terrestrial, terreneadjective

   of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air

   Synonyms:
   mundane, sublunary, planetary, terrene, tellurian, sublunar, telluric

   Antonyms:
   semiaquatic, marine, heavenly, underwater, subaqueous, subaquatic, submerged, amphibious, aquatic, amphibiotic, submersed, unworldly

2. planetary, terrestrialadjective

   of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants

   "planetary rumblings and eructations"- L.C.Eiseley ; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball"

   Synonyms:
   wandering, sublunary, world(a), planetary, world-wide, global, tellurian, mundane, terrene, worldwide, erratic, telluric, sublunar, planetal

   Antonyms:
   unworldly, aquatic, submersed, subaquatic, amphibiotic, semiaquatic, submerged, amphibious, heavenly, subaqueous, underwater, marine

3. terrestrialadjective

   operating or living or growing on land

   Synonyms:
   planetary, tellurian, sublunar, mundane, telluric, sublunary, terrene

   Antonyms:
   semiaquatic, unworldly, subaquatic, submersed, amphibious, underwater, submerged, amphibiotic, subaqueous, aquatic, marine, heavenly

4. mundane, terrestrialadjective

   concerned with the world or worldly matters

   "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"

   Synonyms:
   mundane, telluric, sublunary, sublunar, planetary, terrene, unremarkable, routine, quotidian, tellurian, workaday, everyday

   Antonyms:
   marine, subaquatic, underwater, semiaquatic, subaqueous, submerged, aquatic, submersed, amphibious, amphibiotic, unworldly, heavenly

5. sublunar, sublunary, terrestrialadjective

   of this earth

   "transcendental motives for sublunary actions"; "fleeting sublunary pleasures"; "the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball"

   Synonyms:
   mundane, sublunary, planetary, terrene, tellurian, sublunar, telluric, cislunar

   Antonyms:
   subaqueous, subaquatic, submerged, marine, heavenly, semiaquatic, aquatic, amphibiotic, unworldly, amphibious, submersed, underwater

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1. terrestrialadjective

   Synonyms:
   earthly, sublunary, mundane, worldly, terrene

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1. List of paraphrases for "terrestrial":

   land, land-based, ground, ground-based, earth, onshore, overland, earthly, shore-based, earth-based, inland, on-land

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1. Allyson Jackson:

   Even though fish-eating terrestrial consumers are often exposed to high levels of mercury, they are usually not species eaten by humans – think of an osprey, kingfisher or bald eagle, the same is true for terrestrial consumers that rely on emergent aquatic insects – they are often not species consumed by humans such as spiders, songbirds and bats.

2. Ryan Zeigler:

   Terrestrial samples and lunar samples are very different, so the Artemis team has already taken that into account as they design their tools, they didn't start from scratch. They started with Apollo 17 and what worked really well and are moving forward from there toward Artemis.

3. George Nield:

   We do not have formal authority today to deal with what happens on orbit or on other planetary terrestrial bodies. That’s the issue that we’re wrestling with, what is being looked at right now is a Band-Aid fix because the system is broken.

4. Professor Auke Ijspeert:

   It's a key animal from an evolutionary point of view, it's older than crocodiles and dinosaurs; it's an amphibian. So if you look at the modern salamander, its morphology and body shape is very close to the fossils of the first terrestrial vertebrates. So by studying the modern salamander we have a time window to the ancestors of all terrestrial vertebrates, including humans.

5. Professor Lattanzio:

   A series of astronomical observations obtained over the period 1986 to 2018 supports the idea that life is a cosmic rather than a purely terrestrial or planetary phenomenon, these include the detection of biologically relevant molecules in interstellar clouds and comets, mid-infrared spectra of interstellar grains and the dust from comets, a diverse set of data from comets including the Rosetta mission showing consistency with biology and the frequency of Earth-like or habitable planets in the Galaxy.