Tellus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Tellus
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin tellūs “earth, the earth”
Example Sentences
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Their proximity also makes the Tellus Science Museum an especially fitting home for one of the first Deinosuchus fossil replicas.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
His expertise has since been sought by institutions including Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History, the University of Texas' Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, and the Tellus Museum.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
"Tellus is currently the only museum to have a cast of Deinosuchus schwimmeri, so this is an experience our visitors can't get anywhere else," added Rebecca Melsheimer, the museum's curatorial coordinator.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026
“We would be looking at companies in the S$500 million to S$1 billion range,” Loke, also the CEO of Novo Tellus, told Reuters last week.
From Reuters ● Jan. 27, 2022
Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
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