terreous

English

Etymology

From Latin terreus, from terra.

Adjective

terreous (comparative more terreous, superlative most terreous)

  1. (obsolete) Pertaining to earth; earthy.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, “Compendiously of sundry other common Tenents, concerning Minerall and Terreous bodies, which examined, prove either false or dubious”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 68:
      For when the aiery interſticies are filled […] there remains a groſſe and terreous portion at the bottome;

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