terrestrial
adjective
1. of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
Similar word(s): tellurian, telluric, terrene
2. of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
- this terrestrial ball
Similar word(s): planetary
3. operating or living or growing on land
Similar word(s): onshore, overland
4. concerned with the world or worldly matters
- he developed an immense terrestrial practicality
Similar word(s): secular, temporal, worldly, mundane
5. of this earth
- the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball
Similar word(s): earthly, sublunar, sublunary
Sentences with terrestrial as an adjective:
- a terrestrial plant
noun
1. (botany) A ground-dwelling plant.