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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air [syn: tellurian, telluric, terrestrial, terrene] n
1: an inhabitant of the earth [syn: tellurian, earthling, earthman, worldling]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. of or inhabiting the earth. --n. an inhabitant of the earth. Etymology: L tellus -uris earth

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tellurian Tel*lu"ri*an, a. [L. tellus, -uris, the earth.] Of or pertaining to the earth. --De Quincey.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tellurian Tel*lu"ri*an, n. 1. A dweller on the earth. --De Quincey. 2. An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons. [Written also tellurion.]

Moby Thesaurus

Adamite, Adamitic, anthropocentric, anthropological, being, body, cat, chap, character, creature, customer, duck, earth, earthbound, earthling, earthly, earthy, fellow, finite, fleshly, fluvioterrestrial, frail, geophilous, groundling, guy, hand, head, hominal, homo, homocentric, human, human being, humanistic, individual, joker, life, living soul, man, man-centered, mortal, mundane, nose, one, only human, party, person, personage, personality, single, somebody, someone, soul, subastral, sublunar, telluric, terran, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, unangelic, weak, worldling, worldly