The Collaborative International Dictionary
Terrigenous
Terrigenous \Ter*rig"e*nous\, a. [L. terrigena, terrigenus; terra the earth + genere, gignere, to bring forth.] Earthborn; produced by the earth.
Wiktionary
terrigenous
a. (context geology of a marine sediment English) Derived from the erosion of land-based rocks.
Usage examples of "terrigenous".
Anyhow, save for familiar table fish, dog-fish, squids, jelly-fish and some terrigenous bottom deposits of the usual alluvial clay-mud, we got nothing worth writing home about.