telluric

adj

Etymology

A borrowing of French tellurique, from Latin tellus (“earth; earthy”) and Tellus (“Earth, Gaia”) and -ique (forming adjectives). Subsequently also from tellurium, originally in telluric oxide from German Telluroxyd.

derived from Telluroxyd
derived from tellus — “earth; earthy”
derived from tellurique

Definitions

1
Pertaining to the Earth, earthly.
- My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric.
Containing tellurium in a lower valency than in tellurous compounds.
3
Synonym of telluric current.
- Other projects in progress at CRPL involve the study of audiofrequency tellurics (current induced in the earth) and earth conductivity measurements using atmospherics.

The neighborhood

Derived

hydrotelluric, telluric acid, telluric bismuth, telluric current, telluric gold, telluric iron, telluric ocher, telluric ochre, telluric oxide, telluric planet, telluric silver

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for telluric. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA