terreous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin terreus, from terra.
Adjective edit
terreous (comparative more terreous, superlative most terreous)
- (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;