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What is the best term for a species that originated on another planet?
Xeno
Used as a noun or prefix, meaning "foreign" or "different in origin".
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What is the best term for a species that originated on another planet?
Extraterrestrial
You are mistaken in your usage of extraterrestrial, humans born on another planet are still terrestrial life (in both uses) as far as biology is concerned, it originated from earth.
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What is the best term for a species that originated on another planet?
Perhaps "non-Terran" would be sufficient? "Terran" in other science fiction works has been used to mean "inhabitants of Earth" (Terra being the Latin name for the planet)...
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What is the best term for a species that originated on another planet?
It's a problem we have already faced, once European scientists started to study life form from outside Europe.
In the same way as flora and fauna originated outside of Europe was called African, ...
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What is the best term for a species that originated on another planet?
Consider words in -genous: indigenous, exogenous, xenogenous, extragenous.
And then if planets or solar systems have names: planetname-genous or starname-genous. Earthgenous or Geogenous or ...
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What is the best term for a species that originated on another planet?
There are many terms, with varying degrees of acceptableness. I'd like to draw attention to one set of them that Orson Scott Card put together for the Ender's Game series. I draw attention to it ...
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What is the best term for a species that originated on another planet?
autochthonous formed in it's present condition. "from the rocks"
In a future where humanity has expanded to live on multiple planets and then encounters life, that life will be ...
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What is the best term for a species that originated on another planet?
A Thousand Words For Stranger:
The answer says more about the user.
Language is a funny thing, and fluid. The words people use to describe each other reflect the attitudes they hold about those people....
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