terraqueous
[ter-ey-kwee-uh s, -ak-wee-]
- consisting of land and water, as the earth.
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Origin of terraqueous
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Related Words for terraqueous
terrestrial, mundane, temporal, worldly, carnal, physical, secular, material, terrene, human, mortal, telluric, tellurian, corporeal, earthbound, earthen, earthy, global, profane, alluvialExamples from the Web for terraqueous
Historical Examples of terraqueous
He quietly lifts his pilgrim-staff, and begins a perambulation and circumambulation of the terraqueous globe.
She was constructed to revolve like the terraqueous globe; some part or other of her was always out of sight or in shadow.
The Tragic MuseHenry James
The elastic, compressible, and dilatable fluid encompassing the terraqueous globe.
The Sailor's Word-BookWilliam Henry Smyth
Day is perpetually dawning, and night commencing to some or other of the inhabitants of the terraqueous ball without intermission.
Reason, The Only Oracle of ManEthan Allen
Throughout the terraqueous globe his achievement is cited as the conquest of abstract Science over Physics.