terrestrial planet

terrestrial planet

English

Noun

terrestrial planet (plural terrestrial planets)

1. 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

• major planet
• planet

Hyponyms

• inner planet (in the Solar System)
• silicate planet / silicon planet
• carbide planet / carbon planet
• super-Earth
• sub-Earth

Coordinate terms

• giant planet
  • gas giant
  • ice giant

Translations

planet or exoplanet consisting chiefly of metals and rock

Chinese: Mandarin: 類地行星／类地行星 (zh) (lèidì xíngxīng) Dutch: aardse planeet f Finnish: kiviplaneetta (fi) 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) Turkish: dünyasal gezegen, kayasal gezegen, yerbenzeri gezegen

See also

• dwarf planet
• minor planet