Usually means: Originating from land or earth.
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  1. terrigenous: Merriam-Webster
  2. terrigenous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. terrigenous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. terrigenous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. terrigenous: Wordnik
  6. terrigenous: Wiktionary
  7. terrigenous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. terrigenous: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. terrigenous: Dictionary.com
  10. Terrigenous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Terrigenous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. terrigenous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Terrigenous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. terrigenous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. terrigenous: FreeDictionary.org
  16. terrigenous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. terrigenous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (terrigenous)

▸ adjective:  Produced by the earth.
▸ adjective:  (geology, of a marine sediment) Derived from the erosion of land-based rocks.

Similar:
terrigeneous, earthborn, earth-born, earthen, preterrestrial, terrestrious, authigenic, erthly, earthlike, Terrestrian, more...

Opposite:
pelagic, oceanic, marine

Types:
clastic, chemical, biochemical, volcanic, meteoric, more...

Phrases:
terrigenous sediment, more...

Adjectives:
more, fine, mixed, grained, marine, coarse, thick, marginal

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Similar:
terrigeneous, earthborn, earth-born, earthen, preterrestrial, terrestrious, authigenic, erthly, earthlike, Terrestrian, more...

Opposite:
pelagic, oceanic, marine

Types:
clastic, chemical, biochemical, volcanic, meteoric, more...

Phrases:
terrigenous sediment, more...

Adjectives:
more, fine, mixed, grained, marine, coarse, thick, marginal



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