terraqueous

Adjective

terraqueous (not comparable)

1. (archaic, formal) Chiefly in terraqueous globe (that is, the Earth): consisting of both land and water.
   • The Terraqueous Globe comprehending Sea and Land, Rivers and Lakes, ſtands divided by modern Geographers into tvvo Semi-Orbs, viz. the Old, and Nevv VVorld.1669, John Nieuhoff [i.e., Johan Nieuhof], translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, […], London: […] John...
   • [T]here may poſſibly be One Plastick Inconſcious Nature, in the vvhole Terraqueous Globe, by vvhich Vegetables may be ſeverally organized and framed, and all things performed vvhich tranſcend the Povver of Fortuitous Mechaniſm.1678, R[alph] Cudworth, “[Chapter III.] The Digression Concerning the Plastick Life of Nature, or an Artificial, Orderly and Methodical Nature, N. 37. Chap. 3.”, in The True Intellectual System of...
2. (archaic, formal) Relating to, or taking place on, both land and water.
   • Thus the vicissitudes of the land and ocean, portrayed in the tertiary formations, harmonise perfectly with other terraqueous phenomena of the same geological period.1829, Andrew Ure, “Strata above the Chalk, or Tertiary Rocks”, in A New System of Geology, in Which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature, are Reconciled at Once to Modern Science...
   • Spirit of light and darkness! I no less / Twy-natured, but of more terraqueous mould, / In whom conflicting powers proportion hold / With poise exact, before thy proud excess / Of beauty perfect and pure lawlessness / Quail self-confounded; neither nobly bold / To dare for thee damnation, nor so...1884, John Addington Symonds, “Stella Maris”, in Vagabunduli Libellus, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza LIV, page 64
3. (archaic, formal) Of a plant: living in both land and water; amphibious.
   • Among a large number of terraqueous plants, cellulose and lignin are dominant in nature.2004, Tatsuko Hatakeyama, Hyoe Hatakeyama, “Polysaccharides from Plants”, in Thermal Properties of Green Polymers and Biocomposites, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers...