terra

Plants migrated from water to terra firma some 500 million years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The fact that scientists are finding intact biochar in the Amazon’s ancient terra preta suggests that it’s happening.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025

They came in a small range of colors: sand, terra cotta, chestnut.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024

Thus began a protracted process of draining lakes and waterways to transform the glittering island city into a European-like capital planted on terra firma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

To begin with, slash-and-burn simply does not produce enough charcoal to make terra preta—the carbon mostly goes into the air in the form of carbon dioxide.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

He began again, starting with Juno’s unforgiving cruelty, sweeping into the cave of winds, and finally breaking into the storm: ruunt et terras turbine perflant.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

March 17, 1672.——The terras of the Declaration on this point were,——"Scarce a town within their territories that is not filled with abusive pictures."

From The Duel Between France and Germany by Charles Sumner

"Postera Phoeba lustrabat lampade terras," continued Brother Emmanuel, inexorably running his horny finger-nail beneath the line, "humentemque Aurora polo dimoverat umbram—" the lesson dragged along.

From Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle

Referring to the results of the great discovery, Lope beautifully says that it gave— Al Rey infinitas terras Y á Dios infinitas almas.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by J. M. (John Marcus) Dickey

Canoemen on the Upper Amazons live in constant dread of the "terras cahidas," or landslips, which occasionally take place along the steep earthy banks, especially when the waters are rising.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates