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Telluric

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to the Earth, earthly.

    "My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric."

  2. 2
    Containing tellurium in a lower valency than in tellurous compounds.
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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