terreous

English

Etymology

From Latin terreus, from terra.

Adjective

terreous (comparative more terreous, superlative most terreous)

  1. (obsolete) Pertaining to earth; earthy.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio 2007, p. 333:
      For when the airy intersticies are filled […] there remains a gross and terreous portion at the bottom

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