Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any planet of the solar system or any exoplanet which is "Earth-like" in the sense that it is composed primarily of metals and rock, in contrast to a planet which is a gas giant.

    erdähnlicher Planet

    плане́та земно́го ти́паplanéta zemnóvo típa

    землеподібна планетаzemlepodibna planeta

    a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Mercury is a terrestrial planet.

  2. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are the terrestrial planets of our solar system.

    deMerkur, Venus, Erde und Mars sind die terrestrischen Planeten unseres Sonnensystems. — brauchinet

  3. The Solar System has four terrestrial or telluric planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

  4. The Kuiper Belt is the “third zone” of the solar system beyond the inner terrestrial planets and the outer gas giant planets.

    deDer Kuipergürtel ist die „dritte Zone“ des Sonnensystems jenseits der inneren erdähnlichen Planeten und äußeren Gasriesen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
planet or exoplanet consisting chiefly of metals and rock:
Русский
By meaning 1
planet or exoplanet consisting chiefly of metals and rock:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
planet or exoplanet consisting chiefly of metals and rock:

Forms

plural: terrestrial planets

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

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