terrestrial planet
Noun
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Noun
terrestrial planet (plural terrestrial planets)
- Any planet of the solar system or any exoplanet which is "Earth-like" in the sense that it is composed primarily of metals and rock, in contrast to a planet which is a gas giant.
- rocky planet
- telluric planet
- French: planète tellurique
- German: erdähnlicher Planet
- Russian: плане́та земно́го ти́па
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