terra

The search for terra incognita can explain the explosion, in the 20th century, of science fiction and magical realism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

The fact that scientists are finding intact biochar in the Amazon’s ancient terra preta suggests that it’s happening.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025

They came in a small range of colors: sand, terra cotta, chestnut.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024

This is really quite intriguing as we do not know much about these parts of the genome; our work shows there is benefit in exploring further this genetic terra incognita.'

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024

Despite the charcoal, terra preta is not a by-product of slash-and- burn agriculture.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

He began again, starting with Juno’s unforgiving cruelty, sweeping into the cave of winds, and finally breaking into the storm: ruunt et terras turbine perflant.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Canoemen on the Upper Amazons live in constant dread of the "terras cahidas," or landslips, which occasionally take place along the steep earthy banks, especially when the waters are rising.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

Such landslides, terras 230 cahidas, can be rarely foreseen, and are a grave danger to craft when they come close in to rest at night.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

List, list, they are come from hunting; stand by, close under this terras, and you shall see it done better than I can show it.

From Every Man out of His Humour by Ben Jonson

At the termination of the rainy season in March, it was generally about two-thirds full, supplied from the flat roof or terras during the rainy season.

From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson