tellurian

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: tel=lu=ri=an

CIDE DICTIONARY

tellurian, a. [L. tellus, -uris, the earth.].

 Of or pertaining to the earth.  De Quincey.  [1913 Webster]

tellurian, n. 

•  A dweller on the earth.  De Quincey.  [1913 Webster]
•  An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tellurian, adj. & n.
--adj. of or inhabiting the earth.
--n. an inhabitant of the earth.

Etymology

L tellus -uris earth

THESAURUS

tellurian

Adamite, Adamitic, anthropocentric, anthropological, being, body, cat, chap, character, creature, customer, duck, earth, earthbound, earthling, earthly, earthy, fellow, finite, fleshly, fluvioterrestrial, frail, geophilous, groundling, guy, hand, head, hominal, homo, homocentric, human, human being, humanistic, individual, joker, life, living soul, man, man-centered, mortal, mundane, nose, one, only human, party, person, personage, personality, single, somebody, someone, soul, subastral, sublunar, telluric, terran, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, unangelic, weak, worldling, worldly