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terranean, a. and n.|tɛˈreɪniːən| [f. as next + -an.] A. adj. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the earth.
1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored 107 It is a terranean and earthy Angle. 18..Electr. Rev. (U.S.) XVIII. i. 9 (Cent.) The great strain on the trolley wire..would be a necessary incident of terranean supply. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 120 Of an early muddy terranean origin. B. n. Also terranian. An inhabitant of the planet Earth. Science Fiction. rare.
1913‘Sepharial’ Kabala of Numbers II. xi. 175 Red is an irritant to all but Martians, and to them green probably means the same thing as does red to us Terranians. 1965Punch 27 Jan. 141/3 When one of the anemone-harnessers..tells a couple of captive ‘terraneans’, i.e., grown-ups, ‘You must be destroyed!’ I could sense a tremble of joy in children everywhere. |