"terran" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more terran",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most terran",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "of or from Earth; terrestrial",
          "word": "Terran"
        }
      ],
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Science fiction",
          "orig": "en:Science fiction",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis Neal Irwin, Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 128:",
          "text": "[…] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Ron Sanders, Legerdemainia, →ISBN, page 71:",
          "text": "As they approached the steps the Klee-shaes could hear a terran favorite over the great building's Public Address system—it was Neil Young warbling Keep On Rocking In The Free World, but a Fartian host, misunderstanding the moment, transferred the track to Mollify.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, David Weber, How Firm a Foundation: A Novel in the Safehold Series (#5), Macmillan, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Like most “fish” native to Safehold, it has a very long, sinuous body but the head does resemble a terran hake or cod, with a hooked jaw.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Doug Strider, Space Danger - Space Marines' Graveyard, Douglas Strider, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Annual Pack Includes:\nGift pack - SOL30000 a terran year (equivalent to SOL2500/month over the duration of the adoption).\nPersonalised certificate.\nStand-up photo-portrait (14.5 x 200m) of your soldier.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Gordon R. Dickson, Naked to the Stars, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Cal cut wide in his shoulder jets with a short burst and slid in to earth under a tree so like a terran cottonwood it was hard to tell the difference. The trees on windy hillsides on Lehaunan had been warped and strangely twisted […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Hobbs' Street smelled odd, damp and sweet, but that wasn't due to the residents here but to an odd mutation of a terran honey fungus that had spread throughout the moon colony, running its mycelia through air vents, electrical ducting or […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Don Pendleton, New Orleans Knockout, Open Road Media, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The NASA engineer admiringly dubbed the complete project a “terran module,” comparing it favorably with the best thing yet developed in lunar modules. Bolan liked it, though he was a bit awed by the electronic capabilities of his new warwagon.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of Terran (“of or from Earth; terrestrial”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-terran-en-adj-Ul6FEuiG",
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        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "Terran",
          "Terran#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly science fiction, uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of Terran (“of or from Earth; terrestrial”)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "uncommon"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "science-fiction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "terran"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more terran",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most terran",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "terran (comparative more terran, superlative most terran)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "of or from Earth; terrestrial",
          "word": "Terran"
        }
      ],
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        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with uncommon senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Science fiction"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis Neal Irwin, Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 128:",
          "text": "[…] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Ron Sanders, Legerdemainia, →ISBN, page 71:",
          "text": "As they approached the steps the Klee-shaes could hear a terran favorite over the great building's Public Address system—it was Neil Young warbling Keep On Rocking In The Free World, but a Fartian host, misunderstanding the moment, transferred the track to Mollify.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, David Weber, How Firm a Foundation: A Novel in the Safehold Series (#5), Macmillan, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Like most “fish” native to Safehold, it has a very long, sinuous body but the head does resemble a terran hake or cod, with a hooked jaw.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Doug Strider, Space Danger - Space Marines' Graveyard, Douglas Strider, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Annual Pack Includes:\nGift pack - SOL30000 a terran year (equivalent to SOL2500/month over the duration of the adoption).\nPersonalised certificate.\nStand-up photo-portrait (14.5 x 200m) of your soldier.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Gordon R. Dickson, Naked to the Stars, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Cal cut wide in his shoulder jets with a short burst and slid in to earth under a tree so like a terran cottonwood it was hard to tell the difference. The trees on windy hillsides on Lehaunan had been warped and strangely twisted […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Hobbs' Street smelled odd, damp and sweet, but that wasn't due to the residents here but to an odd mutation of a terran honey fungus that had spread throughout the moon colony, running its mycelia through air vents, electrical ducting or […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Don Pendleton, New Orleans Knockout, Open Road Media, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The NASA engineer admiringly dubbed the complete project a “terran module,” comparing it favorably with the best thing yet developed in lunar modules. Bolan liked it, though he was a bit awed by the electronic capabilities of his new warwagon.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of Terran (“of or from Earth; terrestrial”)"
      ],
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        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "Terran",
          "Terran#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly science fiction, uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of Terran (“of or from Earth; terrestrial”)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "uncommon"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "science-fiction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "terran"
}