terrestrial
adjective /təˈrestriəl/
/təˈrestriəl/
- (specialist) (of animals and plants
) living on the land or on the ground, rather than in water, in trees or in the air动植物 陆地的;陆栖的;陆生的 - a terrestrial habitat
陆上栖息地
- a terrestrial habitat
- connected with the planet Earth
地球的;地球上的 - terrestrial life
地球上的生物
- terrestrial life
- (of television and broadcasting systems
) operating by using equipment on the surface of the earth, rather than sending the signal via a satellite电视和广播系统 Topics TV, radio and newsc2陆地上的,地面上的(与卫星相对而言)
词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘temporal, worldly, mundane’): from Latin terrestris (from terra ‘earth’) + -al.