Crossword clues for terrestrially
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Terrestrial \Ter*res"tri*al\, a. [L. terrestris, from terra the earth. See Terrace.]
Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. ``Bodies terrestrial.''
--1 Cor. xv. 40.Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. ``The dark terrestrial ball.''
--Addison.-
Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane.
Vain labors of terrestrial wit.
--Spenser.A genius bright and base, Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims.
--Young. -
Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents.
The terrestrial parts of the globe.
--Woodward. Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from an astronomical telescope. [1913 Webster] -- Ter*res"tri*al*ly, adv. -- Ter*res"tri*al*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In a terrestrial manner. 2 Whilst located on Earth, or on land.
WordNet
adv. in a worldly manner; "terrestrially changeable" [syn: mundanely]
to a land environment; "terrestrially adapted"
Usage examples of "terrestrially".
That seething, half-luminous cloud background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial, and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.