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terrestrial

CEFR: C1

Living on, relating to, or growing on physical dry land rather than in water (aquatic) or the air (aerial).

Synonyms

land-dwelling
telluric

Common Collocations

terrestrial ecosystem
terrestrial species
terrestrial biome

Example Sentence

Tropical forests harbor more than half of the planet’s terrestrial vertebrate and botanical species.

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