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Word entry · 11 letters

terrestrial

Best crossword clue

"Earthly"

11 letters · collected on this word page

11 lettersPronunciation /tɪˈɹɛstɹɪ.əl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aeeilrrrsttStarts with TEnds with L2 cluesCommon crossword word
1T2E3R4R5E6S7T8R9I10A11L

Definitions

  1. operating or living or growing on land

Word origin

From Middle English terrestrialle, from terrestre or Latin terrestris, from terra (“land, earth, ground”), with the suffix -al.

Used in a sentence

  • quoted in 2022, C. F. G. Clark, The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country […] yet this stone [Cannock] is so Sulphurious and Terrestrial, not fit to make Iron; […]
  • Microorganisms are the Cinderellas of terrestrial ecology — the majority of the Earth's biomass, yet barely catalogued.
  • a terrestrial plant

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Earthly11 letters
02Land-based11 letters

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