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

It assumes a subliminal self, with unknown faculties, originated in some unknown way, and not merely by contact with the needs which the terrene organism has had to meet.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

But he had never been instructed for five minutes in the geography of his native county, of which he knew neither the boundaries nor the rivers nor the terrene characteristics.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

He quaffs the wine of life, and quaffs his fill, And sees Creation through its mask terrene.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric

Should he ever be a suitor Unto sweeter eyes than mine, Sunshine gild them, Angels shield them, Whatsoever eyes terrene Be the sweetest HIS have seen!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett