Adjective

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Of, relating to, or inhabiting the land of the Earth or its inhabitants.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}

Of, relating to, or composed of land.

*1997 , New Scientist, issue 2096, Review: Cinderella's house

*:Microorganisms are the Cinderellas of terrestrial ecology — the majority of the Earth's biomass, yet barely catalogued.

Living or growing in or on land (as opposed to other habitat); not aquatic, etc.

(astronomy) Of a planet, being composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals; see also terrestrial planet.

Concerned with the world or worldly matters.

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A genius bright and base, / Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims.

(Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the second highest degree of glory.

* {{quote-journal , year=1974 , date=February , title=A Sure Trumpet Sound: Quotations from President Lee , journal=Ensign citation

, passage=We are now living and obeying celestial laws that will make us candidates for celestial glory; or we are living terrestrial' laws that will make us candidates for ' terrestrial glory; or telestial.}}

* {{quote-journal , year=1977 , date=August , author=Bruce R. McConkie , title=A New Commandment: Save Thyself and Thy Kindred! , journal=Tambuli citation

, passage=Theirs is an everlasting terrestrial inheritance because they rejected the truth when it was offered to them in mortality.}}

(broadcasting) Broadcast using radio waves as opposed to .

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to a continent or continents.

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*(Henry Hallam) (1777-1859)

*:No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances.

In the main part of a country or region, as opposed to on one of its islands.

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Characteristic of the style of continental Europe, as opposed to British.

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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.

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