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terrain
  1. (geology) A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
  2. An area of land or the particular features of it.
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    1. “The terrain includes cart tracks, stone stiles, rough moorland and broken stone tracks.”
      “These constant huggers ruled over the terrain until a man, no, a legend came up with an answer.”
      “We are faced with difficult intellectual tasks and a harsh political terrain.”
terrestrial
  1. (botany) A ground-dwelling plant.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Terrestrial
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Punishing and condemning a terrestrial because he is not an angel or a moral genius would be the same as punishing a dog because it is a dog and not another being.”
terracotta
terra
  1. A rough upland or mountainous region of the Moon with a relatively high albedo.
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    1. “We were setting out into terra incognita, marked only by blank spaces on the maps, drawn by the magnet of our ambition as explorers.”
      “The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland were terra incognita to almost all Englishmen, and most Lowland Scots.”
      “I now know how the ancient mariners must have felt seeing the signs of terra firma after a long voyage.”
terrane
  1. (geology) A block of the Earth's crust that differs from the surrounding material, and is separated from it by faults.
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    1. “The Xigaze terrane incorporates a 5000-8000 m thick succession of volcaniclastic turbidites.”
      “These rocks are interpreted as a forearc succession that developed in association with north-directed subduction beneath the Lhasa terrane.”
      “The Mannin Thrust is identified as a major imbricating structure within a continental arc, but not a terrane boundary.”
terrestriality
  1. (biology) adaptation to living on the ground (rather than in the trees or seas)
terrene
terrestrialness
  1. Quality of being terrestrial; terrestriality.
terrene
terrasse
  1. (Quebec) terrace
terrestrials
  1. plural of terrestrial
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The Rose Center is a crystal cube, a machine in a garden, a welcoming space station for both terrestrials and aliens.”
      “The most important insects vary with the season but the bulk of them are either mayflies, caddis, midges or terrestrials.”
      “Planets are generally divided into two main types: rocky terrestrials and gas giants.”
terracottas
  1. plural of terracotta
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    1. “Indeed members of this Obatala-linked population are thought to have been the principal artists of Ife's early terracottas.”
      “This is the largest and most highly finished of Bemini's surviving terracottas.”
      “The visit begins with the civilization of ancient India, with Maurya and Sunga terracottas, Mathura and Amaravati sculpture and medieval bronzes.”
terrasses
  1. plural of terrasse
terrenes
terrains
  1. plural of terrain
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Seas closed, uplands emerged, volcanic activity took place, and the entire continental margin grew by the addition of these new terrains.”
      “He also made volcanological observations in the Andes, and he noted seismic events and structural features in the terrains of the Pacific coast.”
      “The presence of morainic terrains near the lake makes it possible to produce a high quality wine.”
terranes
  1. plural of terrane
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These rocks are also of biogeographic interest because unlike truly allochthonous terranes they are parautochthonous with respect to the craton.”
      “The Murihiku Terrane is one of several Permian to early Cretaceous tectonostratigraphic terranes comprising the basement underlying New Zealand.”
      “Part of this complexity can be related to the presence of irregularities on the subducting plates, such as aseismic ridges and arc terranes.”
terrae
  1. plural of terra
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As a result the pages of terrae Filius are from cover to cover a source of immense joy.”
      “Abuses of such a nature are long dead, and a terrae Filius to-day would rapidly die of starvation by reason of the lack of matter.”
      “From the point of view of journalism there is no paper in Oxford to-day which can survive a comparison with terrae Filius.”
terras
  1. plural of terra
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The similarity is discussed in terras of oceanographic condition and the associated laminarian species as main foods.”
      “Centaurus, older and less virile than Terra, was unable to match Terras rate of technocratic advance.”
      “Back in the waterless slums of Terras do Lelo, things are not looking up for Miguel Bemba da Silva.”
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