terrene
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Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The earliest terrene object which we behold is a light-house some sixty miles out at sea, whose occupants, we hope, are not resolutely bent upon social enjoyment.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
By perfecting a method for changing matter from terrene to contraterrene, we have managed to bridge the million light years of space separating our worlds as we saw fit.
From Twelve Times Zero by Howard Browne
Even so, one may say, the influence of the ultra-intellectual or supernormal faculties upon our welfare as terrene organisms is less marked in common life than the influence of the organic or subnormal faculties.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
For it denies that all human faculties must have been evoked by terrene experience.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers