What is the meaning of terrestrial?

Of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air.
- synonyms: tellurian, telluric, terrene
Of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants.
- usage: "planetary rumblings and eructations- L. C. Eiseley; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball"
- synonyms: planetary
Operating or living or growing on land.
Concerned with the world or worldly matters.
- usage: "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"
- synonyms: mundane
Of this earth.
- usage: "transcendental motives for sublunary actions"; "fleeting sublunary pleasures"; "the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball"
- synonyms: sublunar, sublunary

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