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Terrestrial refers to things having to do with the land or with the planet Earth.

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  • 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. These planets go from Mercury to Mars. They are very small compared to the Jovian planets. They all have an iron core and contain not much gas
  • 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

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EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001. Their greatest hit, their debut single "time after time", peaked at #13 in the Oricon singles chart.
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Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land, as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g., fish, lobsters, octopuses), or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g.
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A terrestrial plant is one that grows on land. Other types of plants are aquatic (living in water), epiphytic (living on trees, but not parasitic) and lithophytes (living in or on rocks).

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terrestrial planet, telluric planet or rocky planet is a planet that is primarily composed of silicate rocks. The term is derived from the Latin word for Earth, "Terra
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Terrestrial television is a term which refers to modes of television broadcasting which do not involve satellite transmission. [1] . The term is uncommon in the United States, and more common in Europe.
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TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) (formerly known as Trans European Trunked RAdio) is a specialist Professional Mobile Radio and two-way transceiver (colloquially known as a walkie talkie), designed for use by government agencies, and specifically emergency
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Terra is a word meaning Earth, but also may refer to:
  • Terra, a currency proposed by economist Bernard Lietaer.
  • TERRA, a brand of root vegetable chips manufactured by the Hain Celestial Group
  • TËЯRA, a Bemani in-house musical group
  • Terra (butterfly)

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The term Terran is commonly used in science fiction to refer to humans. The word derives from Latin terra meaning Earth.

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  • Terran (StarCraft), the name for the human race in the StarCraft universe

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Extraterrestrial (or Extra-terrestrial) may refer to any object or being beyond () the planet Earth (terrestrial). It is derived from the Latin extrus ("outside", "outwards") and terrestris ("earthly", "of or relating to the Earth").
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A landform comprises a geomorphological unit, and is largely defined by its surface form and location in the landscape, as part of the terrain, and as such, is typically an element of topography.
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