terrestrial
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 →
2) To do with the planet Earth, not space. tree →
3) (TV, UK) Terrestrial TV is broadcast from transmitters on the ground, not by satellite or cable. tree →
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 →
- Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are the terrestrial planets. tree →
- Frogs live on land and in water, so they are not only terrestrial. tree →
- ET is an extra-terrestrial from another planet. tree →
- Grandma only watches terrestrial TV channels. tree →
- Most snails are terrestrial, but some live in ponds. tree →
- 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 →
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.