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# terrestrial

«terrestrial» in Mova's school dictionary: **Living on land or growing on land, not in water or the air** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (terrestrial); noun (a terrestrial, terrestrials — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Living on land or growing on land, not in water or the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terrestrial/#m1)

2) To do with the planet Earth, not space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terrestrial/#m2)

3) (TV, UK) Terrestrial TV is broadcast from transmitters on the ground, not by satellite or cable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terrestrial/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, terrestrial animals (lions, ants) live on land; aquatic ones live in water. In space science, terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are rocky; «extra-terrestrial» means from beyond Earth (an alien, ET). Phrases: «terrestrial animals», «terrestrial planets», «extra-terrestrial», «terrestrial television».

### examples

- Elephants are terrestrial animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terrestrial/#x1)
- Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are the terrestrial planets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terrestrial/#x2)
- Frogs live on land and in water, so they are not only terrestrial. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terrestrial/#x3)
- ET is an extra-terrestrial from another planet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terrestrial/#x4)
- Grandma only watches terrestrial TV channels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terrestrial/#x5)
- Most snails are terrestrial, but some live in ponds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terrestrial/#x6)
- Erebus reigned in that mysterious world below where no ray of sunshine, no gleam of daylight, nor vestige of health-giving terrestrial life ever appeared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terrestrial/#x7)

### note

Adjective. Opposites: aquatic (water), marine (sea), celestial (sky/space). Related: extra-terrestrial (from outside Earth). Spelling: ter-res-tri-al (double r).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «terrestrial» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terrestrial/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.