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
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Apollion: I have, Lord Belzebub, The low terrene observed with keenest eye.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
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
We must now leave the marine department for awhile, in order to attend to exclusively terrene concerns.
From An Old Sailor's Yarns by N. (Nathaniel) Ames
The specialised forms of terrene perception were not real novelties in the universe, but imperfect adaptations of protoplasm to the manifestation of the indwelling general perceptive power.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers