terrestrial adj.

How glorious will be the moment when, infinitely exceeding all hitherto attained velocities, we shall launch our new projectile with the rapidity of seven miles a second! Shall it not, gentlemen—shall it not be received up there with the honours due to a terrestrial ambassador? [Ibid. xxv. 131] We shall not be completely abandoned by our terrestrial friends; they will take care not to forget us.

Almost directly beneath us was a broad oval region, light red in color, to which terrestrial astronomers had given the name of Hellas.

The average Martians live over 150 Martian years, which is 300 terrestrial years.

You lived on the earth, died there and were born again on Venus; and, in some way, the memory of your terrestrial life was not blotted out.

He recommended me to this place full of music, pretty Terrestrial girls, drinks from all the planets, and a nine-rayed joy-lamp that drove your senses zig-zag with its liquory light.

Time was getting short; we were supposed to be at Mojave Space port on 26 June, just two weeks away…. The booklet had said, ‘Close your terrestrial affairs as if you were dying.’

Retief…started off in the direction of the Terrestrial Consulate General. [Ibid. 103/2] I understand that a Terrestrial task force stood off Groac and sent a delegation down to ask questions.

We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It’s a terrestrial characteristic.

At last, and in gorgeous contrast to the original trilogy, we can have landscapes that don’t look like terrestrial locations, aliens that don’t look like humans in suits or muppeteered latex figurines.

Hector Kovack was a fine-looking second-generation Martian, twenty-eight years of age Terrestrial.