terrestrial planet

[tuh-res-tree-uhl plan-it] / təˈrɛs tri əl ˈplæn ɪt /

NOUN

major planet

Synonyms

WEAK

Mars Mercury Venus earth inner planet

Example Sentences

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“This is a terrestrial planet that I would describe as Io on steroids,” Kane said in a statement about TOI-6713.01.

From Salon • May 14, 2024

"So lava worlds can give us some insight into what may have happened in the evolution of nearly any terrestrial planet."

From Science Daily • Sep. 27, 2023

Until now geophysicists have really only studied one active terrestrial planet up close—Earth.

From Scientific American • Nov. 14, 2017

Anglada-Escudé and his colleagues estimate that Proxima b is at least 1.3 times as big as Earth and is most likely a terrestrial planet, with a surface.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 24, 2016

Our terrestrial planet is in constant increase by meteoric dust, moving to it through endless time out of infinite space.

From Plato and Platonism by Pater, Walter