terrene
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Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself.
From Time Magazine Archive
The amœba is the connecting link which connects all terrene life with primitive bathybian protoplasm, and is, strictly speaking, a true hermaphrodite.
From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by James Weir
For their first day's breakfast on the new regimen, the old woman treated them with a terrene of oatmeal gruel.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
We still in this terrene abode Forlorn must tread the difficult road, And all meek thanks and all belief Hardly suffice to rampart grief.
From The Three Hills And other Poems by Charles Baudelaire
Form unknown in things terrene; Even monsters pliocene Were not so ill-shaped, I ween.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 by Various
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