Usually means: Lives or grows on land.
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  1. terricolous: Merriam-Webster
  2. terricolous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. terricolous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. terricolous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. terricolous: Wordnik
  6. terricolous: Wiktionary
  7. terricolous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. terricolous: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. terricolous: Dictionary.com
  10. Terricolous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. terricolous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. terricolous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Bryological (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (terricolous)

▸ adjective:  (biology) Living in, on, or near ground.

Similar:
terricole, terricoline, geophilous, epigeous, luticolous, epigeal, petricolous, geodephagous, euterrestrial, radicicolous, more...

Opposite:
aquatic, marine, pelagic

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Similar:
terricole, terricoline, geophilous, epigeous, luticolous, epigeal, petricolous, geodephagous, euterrestrial, radicicolous, more...

Opposite:
aquatic, marine, pelagic



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