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English
Etymology
From Latin terreus, from terra.
Adjective
terreous (comparative more terreous, superlative most terreous)
- (obsolete) Pertaining to earth; earthy.
1650, Thomas Browne, “Compendiously of sundry other common Tenents, concerning Minerall and Terreous bodies, which examined, prove either false or dubious”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC, 2nd book, page 68:For when the aiery interſticies are filled […] there remains a groſſe and terreous portion at the bottome;
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