terrestrial planet

English

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.

Synonyms

rocky planet
telluric planet

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

giant planet
- gas giant
- ice giant

Translations

Any planet of the solar system or any exoplanet which is Earth-like

Chinese:
Mandarin: 類地行星 (zh), 类地行星 (zh) (lèidì xíngxīng)
Dutch: aardse planeet f
Finnish: maankaltainen planeetta
French: planète tellurique (fr) f

German: erdähnlicher Planet m
Japanese: 地球型惑星 (ja) (ちきゅうがたわくせい, chikyūgata wakusei)
Romanian: terestrială planetă f
Russian: плане́та земно́го ти́па f (planéta zemnóvo típa)

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