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terran
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"of or pertaining to the planet Earth," 1881, in science fiction writing, from Latin terra (see terrain ). Also used as a noun meaning "inhabitant of the Earth" (1953). An earlier form, terrene was used in Middle English in sense of "belonging to this world, ...
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Terran is a demonym derived from "terra", the Latin term for Earth. As an adjective the word describes a person, place, or thing originating from Earth, the planet. Particularly the word is used to describe the people of the Earth, although it may also ...
Usage examples of terran.
He was Terran, Allo noted, in that part of his brain that was still capable of rational thought.
Rather like a cross between the tropical trumpet and STAR TREK LOG FOR 25 angelfish of the warm Terran ocean, the single fish was beautiful enough.
This indicates that the Terran archaea may have arrived on Earth in the SNC meteorites.
Although he had never made a deep study of the arthropodal race he knew, as did all spacemen, which Terran luxuries were appreciated by the Shaara.
All it meant was that Baumer, and maybe another Terran or two out in the city, might say something to a Jevlenese that was useful.
She had, from birth, had access to the best bioscience Raehaniv money could buy, and at fifty-four Terran years her hair was as darkly auburn and her body as lithe as ever.
Terran species, the bowerbird, which constructs an elaborate bower fifty times his size and then decorates it with orchids and berries to attract the female.
In Terran birds the songs and calls are produced in the syrinx, an organ posterior to the larynx, at the junction of the bronchi and the trachea.
Our ceramic cassegrain lasers were far superior to the nearest Terran equivalents, though not many Venerians cared to use weapons so heavy and unpleasant for the shooter.
Terran coelenterates had developed specialized stinging cells to gather prey and defend.
The latter was also busy fomenting treasons and plots among his coreligionists in Nostor and Sask by radio, and the three Terran members usually found themselves called away to show some Freyan mechanic how to use a monkey-wrench, or to land a spy outside one of the enemy capitals, or jockey a landing-craft to and from the ship.
The language of that area, allied with other mountain dialects and with Terran Gaelic, HH 84, 175.
It was this closeness in the sound of Terran and Dominionite names that allowed the Time Agents to retain so close an approximation of their own, as all preferred to do whenever possible.
The tree whose branches almost brushed against the window was a featherleaf, product of a well-developed local ecosystem which showed little sign of yielding to Terran imports.
It was home base for the police force which protected the Fuzzies and maintained surveillance of their territory against Terran intrusion.