terran

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1. uncommonliteratureAlternative letter-case form of Terran (“of or from Earth; terrestrial”).

   […] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).

   2008, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis Neal Irwin, Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 128

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   As they approached the steps the Klee-shaes could hear a terran favorite over the great building's Public Address system—it was Neil Young warbling Keep On Rocking In The Free World, but a Fartian host, misunderstanding the moment, transferred the track to Mollify.

   2008, Ron Sanders, Legerdemainia, →ISBN, page 71

   Like most “fish” native to Safehold, it has a very long, sinuous body but the head does resemble a terran hake or cod, with a hooked jaw.

   2011, David Weber, How Firm a Foundation: A Novel in the Safehold Series (#5), Macmillan, →ISBN

   Annual Pack Includes: Gift pack - SOL30000 a terran year (equivalent to SOL2500/month over the duration of the adoption). Personalised certificate. Stand-up photo-portrait (14.5 x 200m) of your soldier.

   2013, Doug Strider, Space Danger - Space Marines' Graveyard, Douglas Strider, →ISBN

   Cal cut wide in his shoulder jets with a short burst and slid in to earth under a tree so like a terran cottonwood it was hard to tell the difference. The trees on windy hillsides on Lehaunan had been warped and strangely twisted […]

   2013, Gordon R. Dickson, Naked to the Stars, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

   Hobbs' Street smelled odd, damp and sweet, but that wasn't due to the residents here but to an odd mutation of a terran honey fungus that had spread throughout the moon colony, running its mycelia through air vents, electrical ducting or […]

   2014, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN

1. not comparableliteratureOf Earth; of terrestrial origin.

plural Terrans

1. literatureAn inhabitant of Earth; an earthling, especially a human.

   The magazines, in the nearby rack, were in English. And on their covers, laughing Terrans.

   1966, Philip K. Dick, Now Wait for Last Year

   Synonyms: Earthican, Earthling, Gaian, Tellurian

1. A hypothetical language spoken throughout all of Earth.

   Synonyms: Earthese