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Earthborn

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.

Wiktionary
earthborn

a. Born or produced on the planet Earth.

WordNet
earthborn
  1. adj. of earthly origin (as mortals are); "earthborn existence"

  2. springing from or born on the earth; "earthborn beings"

  3. connected with earthly life; of earthly origin; "earthborn cares and pleasures"

Wikipedia
Earthborn

Earthborn (1995) is the concluding fifth book of the Homecoming Saga by Orson Scott Card. The Homecoming saga is a fictionalization of the first few hundred years recorded in the Book of Mormon.

Usage examples of "earthborn".

Any one of the crew could have done it, of course but Allo had already come off as too aggressive, and TamTam would probably confuse the poor Earthie, and as for Calia, she had a pretty strong distaste for the Earthborn, which might make things difficult.

Now our own world was once like that starship, a little cosmos, bearing with it all the thousands of Earthborn cultures, Hopi and Eskimo and Aztec and Kwakiutl and Arapesh and Orokolo and all the rest.

Nor can it truly be said of the extinct or scattered races, such as the Sky Pirates of Zanadar or the bandit warriors of the Chac Yuul, whose physical characteristics differed considerably from earthborn humans.

And Agenor's son, Cadmus, sowed them on the Aonian plains and founded an earthborn people of all who were left from the spear when Ares did the reaping.

The outworld ones fared poorly at the hands of the alien almsgivers, but those who were Earthborn did well, except for the Changelings, who could not be recognized as native stock.

She could remember some of the earliest Heptarchs as little children, learning long catalogues of flora and fauna, all neatly split between native and Earthborn.

So now, as the grinning Earthborn hydrologists showed her as she stepped into an observation gallery cut into the side of the lava tube, black water was racing down the bottom of the huge tunnel, barely covering its bottom even at 200 cubic meters a second, the roar of its splashing echoing in the empty cylinder of basalt.