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terraqueous

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ter·ra·que·ous  (tr-kw-s, -kw-)
adj.
Composed of land and water.
[Latin terra, earth; see ters- in Indo-European roots + aqueous.]


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Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
"Very far," said Don Quixote, "for of the three hundred and sixty degrees that this terraqueous globe contains, as computed by Ptolemy, the greatest cosmographer known, we shall have travelled one-half when we come to the line I spoke of.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
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