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  • noun Plural form of tellurian.

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Examples

  • They of the solar side saw heliocentrically what you tellurians saw geocentrically, and unless these two aspects are somehow combined, I, the visualized object, must keep shuttling in the universal night.

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • They of the solar side saw heliocentrically what you tellurians saw geocentrically, and unless these two aspects are somehow combined, I, the visualized object, must keep shuttling in the universal night.

    Bend Sinister 2010

  • Since it was published in 1950, this story of successive visits to the planet Mars by tellurians -- first spacemen, then tycoons, next odd types, and, finally the survivors of the last large-scale war on Earth -- has come to be counted one of the classics of science fiction.

    Despite stars, the 1980 TV miniseries of The Martian Chronicles is a sad story Paul 2009

  • Since it was published in 1950, this story of successive visits to the planet Mars by tellurians -- first spacemen, then tycoons, next odd types, and, finally the survivors of the last large-scale war on Earth -- has come to be counted one of the classics of science fiction.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Paul 2009

  • I think the coolest ones are the tellurians and orreries.

    Planet Geospatial 2009

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