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adjective of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium
adjective of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
originA borrowing of French tellurique, from Latin tellus (“earth; earthy”) and Tellus (“Earth, Gaia”) and -ique (forming adjectives). Subsequently also from tellurium, originally in telluric oxide from German Telluroxyd.
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