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Tellurian

noun
1.
An inhabitant of the earth.  Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air.  Synonyms: telluric, terrene, terrestrial.






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"Tellurian" Quotes from Famous Books



... the newest and fleetest of the Law Enforcement Vessels of the Triplanetary League, the heavy cruiser Chicago, of the North American Division of the Tellurian Contingent, plunged stolidly through interplanetary vacuum. For five long weeks she had patrolled her allotted volume of space. In another week she would report back to the city whose name she bore, ...
— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith

... his mental trigger and he knew the exact velocity he would require. His hand swept over the studs, his right foot tramped down, hard, upon the firing lever; and, even as the quivering flitter shot forward under eight Tellurian gravities of acceleration, he knew to the thousandth of a second how long he would have to hold that acceleration to attain that velocity. While not really long—in seconds—it was much too long for comfort. It took him much closer to the vortex ...
— The Vortex Blaster • Edward Elmer Smith



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