Definitions
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
01“Earthly”11 letters
02“Land-based”11 letters
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