| Front | tellurian \te-LOOR-ee-uhn\ |
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| Back | adjective Relating to or inhabiting Earth. noun An inhabitant of Earth. [From Latin tellus (earth). Tellus, also known as Terra, was the goddess of the earth in Roman mythology. Earliest documented use: 1846.] “Life without him was less imaginable than a tellurian’s camping-tent on a mountain in the moon.” - Vladimir Nabokov; The Real Life of Sebastian Knight; New Directions Publishers; 1941. “We Tellurians, or Earth-dwellers, have always wondered about the existence of life on other worlds.” - Howard Williams; Book Briefs; The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand); Sep 29, 2007. |
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