Terrestrial
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Terrestrial refers to things having to do with land or with the planet Earth.
[edit] Related terms
- Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on the land, as opposed to in water, air, or in the trees
- Terrestrial plant, a plant that grows on land rather than in water or on rocks or trees
- Terrestrial planet, a planet that is primarily composed of silicate rocks
- Terrestrial ecoregion, land ecoregions, as distinct from freshwater ecoregions and marine ecoregions
- Terrestrial television, indicates that TV or radio signals are received through a conventional aerial
- Terrestrial Trunked Radio, a specialist walkie talkie standard used by police departments, fire departments, ambulance services and the military
[edit] See also
- Terra
- Terran
- Extraterrestrial, any object or being beyond the planet Earth
- Landform, a geomorphological unit defined by their surface form and location in the landscape
