The Collaborative International Dictionary
Terraqueous \Ter*ra"que*ous\, a. [L. terra the earth + E.
aqueous.]
Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous
globe.
--Cudworth.
The grand terraqueous spectacle
From center to circumference unveiled.
--Wordsworth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context of a celestial body English) Comprising both land and water, like the Earth.
Usage examples of "terraqueous".
Manila Galleon, and soon it will be laden with all the silks of China and spices of India and it will sail out of this bay and commence a voyage of seven months, crossing half of the terraqueous globe.
He had circumnavigated the terraqueous globe and knew more languages than most Englishmen knew drinking-songs.
But then you reflect that these same people circumnavigate the entire terraqueous globe, sometimes in trying circumstances, which argues a certain constancy.
Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
In the month of June, commodore Anson returned from his voyage of three years and nine months, in which he had surrounded the terraqueous globe.
As the terraqueous globe becomes formed, changed, and perfected, little by little, through the cataclysms and convulsions which, by means of fire, flood, earthquake, and irruptions, transform the earth, so it is with humanity.
Right up to the closing years of the eighteenth century (and in Priestley’s case a little beyond) scientists everywhere searched for, and sometimes believed they had actually found, things that just weren’t there: vitiated airs, dephlogisticated marine acids, phloxes, calxes, terraqueous exhalations, and, above all, phlogiston, the substance that was thought to be the active agent in combustion.