terraqueous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   consisting of both land and water, especially in the phrase terraqueous globe for Earth

   The calculation imagined the population spread across the entire terraqueous globe.

2. 2
   adj

   living, occurring, or operating partly on land and partly in water

   The survey recorded several terraqueous plants along the seasonally flooded bank.

From Late Latin terraqueus, formed from Latin terra ("land, earth") + aqueus ("watery"), with English -ous. The compact learned formation was especially common in the phrase terraqueous globe for a world made of land and sea.

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