terrestrial
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"Until now, a lot of natterjack toad restoration efforts have focused on improving terrestrial habitat, like clearing scrub or controlling vegetation," she said.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
"This suggests Kank may have been an active fisher, contrasting with common portrayal of raptors as agile terrestrial predators, like Velociraptor from the Northern Hemisphere."
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
Building up a terrestrial AI business could arguably help pave the way for that.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
“The timeline is very different. You’re going to need as much terrestrial data-center capacity as you can arrange in the near term,” Bezos said on Wednesday.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
After the translation of Ptolemy’s Geography there is a record of a terrestrial globe being made in 1443 ‘according to Ptolemy’s description’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing terrestrial
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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Elements of the Universe: Terr, Terra ("Earth")
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "T"
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