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earth-born

Earthborn \Earth"born`\, earth-born \earth"-born\([~e]rth"b[^o]rn`), a.

  1. Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human; having the characteristics of earthly life; as, earth-born beings.

    Some earthborn giant.
    --Milton.

  2. Relating to, or occasioned by, earthly objects.

    All earthborn cares are wrong.
    --Goldsmith.

Usage examples of "earth-born".

So in the evenings, it was not uncommon to find Earth-Born busying themselves at special duties around the livestock, the landing pads, the central supply depot .

They all looked to Deckard like first-generation Mars natives, some of the younger ones possibly second-gen, the children and grandchildren of the Earth-born emigrants who’d gotten this far and had then given up on getting all the way to the stars.

These things being so, I see that I must consider and mention how these two lines, which by their separate genealogies depict the two cities one of earth-born, the other of regenerated persons, became afterwards so mixed and confused, that the whole human race, with the exception of eight persons, deserved to perish in the deluge.

After his father was killed in a construction accident when Nyrom was too young to remember him, he had been raised by an Earth-born uncle, a former military engineer who had migrated to Kronia with his family from somewhere in the Middle East.