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extinct

/ik-stingkt/US // ɪkˈstɪŋkt //UK // (ɪkˈstɪŋkt) //

绝迹了,灭绝了,绝种了,已灭绝

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : no longer in existence; having ended or died out: extinct pre-Colombian societies.
    • : Biology, Ecology. having no living member remaining anywhere, not in the wild, in a naturalized population, nor in captivity, as categorized by the IUCN Red List: a list of extinct animals that once inhabited the Isle of Man.Abbreviation: EX
    • : no longer in use; obsolete: an extinct custom.
    • : extinguished; quenched; not burning: evidence of a half dozen extinct campfires.
    • : Geology. not having erupted for at least 10,000 years and not expected to erupt again.Compare active, dormant.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.dead, obsolete

Examples

  • The skull comes from an extinct animal, Crocodylus checchiai.

  • Next, the scientists combined eggshell data with what’s known about the family trees of extinct and living egg-laying animals.

  • New analyses of a roughly 7-million-year old skull from the extinct Crocodylus checchiai suggest that crocodiles journeyed from Africa to the Americas millions of years ago, researchers report July 23 in Scientific Reports.

  • Combining this and other eggshell data with the evolutionary relationships of extinct and living egg-laying animals, the researchers calculated the most likely scenario for dinosaur egg evolution.

  • It is not even guaranteed to produce more species, since evolution can occur in a single lineage and this can go extinct at any time.

  • In origins, as in Washington politics, moderates are slowly going extinct.

  • So while the divas are fewer in number in 2014, they are far from extinct.

  • His decision reflected a quality—largely extinct in show business now—called integrity.

  • Yabuki also notes that as tigers go extinct throughout the world, China sees raising them as a good business opportunity.

  • Wild tigers are rare in China, with some varieties now believed to be extinct.

  • What course was taken to supply that assembly when any noble family became extinct?

  • Her hope persisted until half-past nine: it then began to fade, and, at ten o'clock, was extinct.

  • The senior branch of the family being thus extinct the whole of the entailed estate had devolved on me.

  • The forests there are wonderful, and it is there, if anywhere, that the almost extinct Indian lion is still to be found.

  • The great auk is but a memory; the bittern booms more rarely in our eastern marshes; and now they tell me Brigadiers are extinct.