preterrestrial
adjEtymology From pre- + terrestrial.
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Prior to the formation of Earth
- The System of the World of Laplace is the history of a preterrestrial era, the history of the world before the formation of the planet Earth, or if one prefers, of the Earth in its unity with the Sun.1980, Eugenio Donato, “The Museum's Furnace”, in Textual Strategies, →ISBN, page 235:
- A plagioclase glass in some chondrites and irons formed by preterrestrial impact between meteorites in space.2003, American Geological Institute, Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms, →ISBN, page 333:
- Derived terms
- preterrestrially
- Related terms
- postterrestrial