the solid part of our planet's surface as distinguished from the sea and air
after that nightmarish storm, the sailors were grateful to reach terra firma
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Recent Examples of terra firmaAnd boy did the terrain change while crawling up, along, and down steep unpaved terra firma.—Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025 Helium-3 is rare on terra firma, but is thought to be abundant in the regolith of the Moon.—Paul Ridden
may 27, New Atlas, 27 May 2025 Sydney Chandler, daughter of Kyle Chandler, stars as a young woman who must respond when a spacecraft carrying the deadliest being in the galaxy crash-lands on terra firma.—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 19 May 2025 That moment when your foot finally hits terra firma after your body’s been through a spin cycle?—Allison Morrow, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for terra firma
Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire.
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