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Of or relating to the earth or its living things; earthbound.

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Usage examples (35)
  • There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
  • Certain terrestrial plants for certain temperature zones.
  • This occurs primarily by the mechanism of colligative cryoprotection, as in terrestrial animals.
  • EVDO Rev. A has a top speed of something like 3+ Mbps in terrestrial uses with 1.25 MHz of spectrum allocated.
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