terrestrial planet
Any planet of the solar system or any exoplanet which is "Earth-like" in the sense…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.
» Mercury is a terrestrial planet.
Meaning
1 sensesAny 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 sentencesMercury is a terrestrial planet.
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
The Solar System has four terrestrial or telluric planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
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
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Forms
plural: terrestrial planets| Singular | terrestrial planet |
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