Terrene vs Terpene - What's the difference?
terrene | terpene |
Pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial, worldly as opposed to heavenly.
* (rfdate) Sir Walter Raleigh:
* (rfdate) Hickok:
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(poetic) The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.
* Tenfold the length of this terrene . — Milton.
(organic chemistry) A very large class of naturally occurring and synthetic organic compounds formally derived from the hydrocarbon isoprene; they include many volatile compounds used in perfume and food flavours, turpentine, the steroids, the carotene pigments and rubber.
As nouns the difference between terrene and terpene
is that terrene is the Earth's surface; the earth; the ground while terpene is a very large class of naturally occurring and synthetic organic compounds formally derived from the hydrocarbon isoprene; they include many volatile compounds used in perfume and food flavours, turpentine, the steroids, the carotene pigments and rubber.As an adjective terrene
is pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial, worldly as opposed to heavenly.terrene
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene .
- Common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience.
- Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.
- For the earth was both celestial and terrene , the down here and the up there.