Definitions
of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
Word origin
A borrowing of French tellurique, from Latin tellus (“earth; earthy”) and Tellus (“Earth, Gaia”) and -ique (forming adjectives). Subsequently also from tellurium, originally in telluric oxide from German Telluroxyd.
Used in a sentence
“My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric.”
“Other projects in progress at CRPL involve the study of audiofrequency tellurics (current induced in the earth) and earth conductivity measurements using atmospherics.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Of the earth”8 letters
02“Earth-related”8 letters
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