Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rough upland or mountainous region of the moon or other solar system body often having a high albedo relative to other surface features.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Earth, or the earth: sometimes personified, Terra: used especially in various phrases (Latin and Italian).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The earth; earth.
- noun (Com.) a white amorphous earthy substance consisting of burnt gypsum, aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some similar ingredient, as magnesia. It is sometimes used to adulterate certain foods, spices, candies, paints, etc.
- noun Baked clay; a kind of hard pottery used for statues, architectural decorations, figures, vases, and the like.
- noun formerly, one appointed to write a satirical Latin poem at the public acts in the University of Oxford; -- not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge, England.
- noun firm or solid earth, as opposed to
water . - noun Same as
Gambier . It was formerly supposed to be a kind of earth from Japan. - noun Lemnian earth. See under
Lemnian . - noun (Min.) barite, or heavy spar.
- noun See
Sienna .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rough upland ormountainous region of themoon with a relatively highalbedo .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Sed vide ne forte terra, quae eft infra abyflum, appenfafit fuper nihilum; ea autem, quae eft fupra abyflum, terra* '
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The term terra preta refers to rich black soils found in the Amazon.
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The term terra preta refers to rich black soils found in the Amazon.
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Dóminus consérvet eum, et vivíficet eum, et beátum fáciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in ánimam inimicórum ejus.
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Buatto "plants" fake garden flowers -- foxgloves, orchids, delphiniums, hyacinths, lady's mantle, and roses -- in terra cotta pots.
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One volume will be clad in terra cotta, conveying permanence and protection, while the other will be clad in glass, symbolizing a more subtle message of impermanence and fragility.
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Pete Bogs says: still think the war on terra is making us all safer?
Think Progress » Administration Receives Poor Grade On “Biggest Threat Facing This Country”
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Scientists should study the microorganisms in terra preta, Woods told me, to find out how they work.
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Scientists should study the microorganisms in terra preta, Woods told me, to find out how they work.
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She heard the word terra and concluded they'd won deeds to land parcels.
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