Not aquatic, arboreal, or aerial

Usage examples of terrestrial.

This brief abstract applies to plants alone: some strictly analogous facts could be given on the distribution of terrestrial animals.

Each centre was being equipped as a space port and education unit, in which terrestrials would learn to understand the antiphonal complexities of Galingua and to behave as citizens of a well-populated galaxy.

Wu more or less admitted that the Chi is similar to terrestrial bacteria, it is odd that a mammalian paramyxovirus rather than a bacteriophage was chosen, but Mariella dismisses it as a minor mystery, is more concerned with proving her hypothesis that, after infection, the Chi altered the virus.

Humans, large terrestrial metazoans, fired by energy from microbial symbionts lodged in their cells, instructed by tapes of nucleic acid stretching back to the earliest live membranes, informed by neurons essentially the same as all the other neurons on earth, sharing structures with mastodons and lichens, living off the sun, are now in charge, running the place, for better or worse.

Hence we have only to suppose that such wandering species have been modified through natural selection in their new homes in relation to their new position, and we can understand the presence of endemic bats on islands, with the absence of all terrestrial mammals.

Lawyer Paravant had received out of transcendency a sounding slap on the cheek, and had countered with scientific alacrity, yes, had even eagerly turned the other cheek, heedless of his quality as gentleman, jurist, and one-time member of a duelling corps, all of which would have constrained him to quite a different line of conduct had the blow been of terrestrial origin.

Iraq, my peripateticism there has been limited to its terrestrial surfaces.

The photophores are between the skin and the mantle muscle in terrestrial squid.

The Chinese took Martian genes and added them to terrestrial species of phytoplankton, that much seems certain.

He got back to the assembly of the early terrestrial protocells without any problems, but then the database began skipping all over the place.

And it had been young, brilliant, vociferous Rex Quant of Gyges who pointed out that, like the Franks who finished up talking a descendant of Latin, like Crusaders seduced away from their religious fervour by the superior civilization of the Saracens, terrestrial man might be at the mercy of influences he could not define.

Seat, that this sublunary rainbow, this terrestrial glory, was spread in its most vivid hues beneath his feet.

After some weeks I received a note from Cass, telling me that he was trying to write his book, but that the terrestrial flames were constantly attempting to convert him to their theistic religion.

I received a note from Cass, telling me that he was trying to write his book, but that the terrestrial flames were constantly attempting to convert him to their theistic religion.

They said Rinpoche-La was the last truly unspoiled place on earth, a sort of terrestrial Nirvana where the inhabitants were free from the daily burden of human existence.