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1. Of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
   - tellurian, telluric, terrene
    
2. Of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
   "this terrestrial ball";
   - planetary
    
3. Operating, living or growing on land
    
4. Concerned with the world or worldly matters
   "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality";
   - mundane
    
5. Of this earth
   "the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball";
   - sublunar, sublunary

1. An inhabitant of the planet Earth

Derived forms: terrestrials

See also: earthly, onshore, overland, secular, temporal, worldly

Antonym: amphibious, aquatic

Encyclopedia: Terrestrial