mindmap root((TERR)) parterre 1、 A decorative garden with paths between the beds of plants.
2、 The back area of the ground floor of a theater, often under the balcony.
🌱The city's park boasts a beautiful parterre with many varieties of roses. 🌳Parterre comes to English by way of French, where it means "on the ground." And in the early years of the theater, the parterre was truly on the ground. In Shakespeare's day, an English theater's parterre was the cheap standing-room area right in front of the stage, normally filled with rowdy spectators. The original idea of the French parterre garden, with its carefully designed plots and walkways, was to present an artistic pattern when seen from above—from a balcony, a raised terrace, or the top of an outdoor staircase. English gardeners responded with garden designs that tried to make their viewers half-forget that they were seeing something created by humans rather than untamed nature itself. subterranean Underground.
🌱In Carlsbad Caverns National Park there is an astonishing subterranean chamber over half a mile long. 🌳A tunnel is a subterranean road or pathway, and a subway is a subterranean railway. The subterranean vaults at Fort Knox hold billions of dollars of gold reserves. Subterranean reservoirs called aquifers are tapped for water; in places where the pressure on the subterranean water is great enough, a hole drilled in the ground will bring it bubbling to the surface. terrarium An enclosure, usually transparent, with a layer of dirt in the bottom in which plants and sometimes small animals are kept indoors.
🌱When no one was watching, they dropped their snake in the fifth-grade terrarium, and then waited in the hall to hear the screams. 🌳The turtle exhibit at a zoo is often in the form of a terrarium, as are some of the exhibits at a plant conservatory. In an ant terrarium, elementary-school students watch the ants dig their network of tunnels as if no one were watching. Terrariums try to create conditions as close as possible to a natural habitat. A covered terrarium can often sustain itself for months on the moisture trapped inside. But creating a good terrarium requires careful control not only of humidity but also of temperature, as well as good ventilation; the lighting should include the full spectrum of sunlight as well as a day-night regulator. terrestrial 1、 Having to do with Earth or its inhabitants.
2、 Living or growing on land instead of in water or air.
🌱The roadrunner, although a largely terrestrial bird, can take flight for short periods when necessary. 🌳Everything on or having to do with Earth can be called terrestrial. Mercury, Venus, and Mars are often called the terrestrial planets, since they are rocky balls somewhat like Earth rather than great globes of gas like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Something extraterrestrial comes from beyond the earth and its atmosphere; the word can be used to describe anything "out of this world," from moon rocks to meteors. Turning to the second sense of terrestrial, animals are often divided into the terrestrial （land-living） and the aquatic （water-living）. And sometimes terrestrial animals are contrasted with arboreal animals, those that live in trees.