be+extinct

  • 1Extinct in the Wild — (EW) is a conservation status assigned to species or lower taxa, the only known living members of which are being kept in captivity or as a naturalized population outside its historic range.pecies examplesExamples of such animals… …

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  • 2Extinct Birds (Rothschild book) — Extinct Birds (complete title: Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which… …

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  • 3Extinct — Ex*tinct , a. [L. extinctus, exstinctus, p. p. of extinguere, exstinguere. See {Extinguish}.] 1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano. [1913 Webster] Light, the prime work of God, to me… …

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  • 4extinct — [ek stiŋkt′, ikstiŋkt′] adj. [ME < L extinctus, exstinctus, pp. of exstinguere: see EXTINGUISH] 1. a) having died down or burned out; extinguished [an extinct fire] b) no longer active [an extinct volcano] 2. no longer in existence or use;… …

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  • 5Extinct birds — may refer to:*Extinct Birds (Rothschild book) *Late Quaternary prehistoric birds *List of extinct birds *List of fossil birds *Prehistoric bird …

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  • 6Extinct — Ex*tinct , v. t. To cause to be extinct. [Obs.] Shak. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 7Extinct Kannada literature — refers to a body of literature written in the Kannada language and script during the period immediately preceding the extant Kavirajamarga dated to 850 CE. Important writings contemporary to Kavirajamarga are also considered here. While no works… …

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  • 8extinct — index dead, defunct, lifeless (dead), null (invalid), null and void, obsolete, outdated …

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  • 9extinct — (adj.) early 15c., from L. extinctus/exstinctus, pp. of extinguere/exstinguere (see EXTINGUISH (Cf. extinguish)). Originally of fires; the sense of the condition of dying out of a family or a hereditary title, 1580s; of species by 1768. Cf.… …

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  • 10extinct — [adj] dead, obsolete abolished, archaic, asleep, bygone, cold*, dead and gone*, deceased, defunct, departed, disappeared, done for*, doused, ended, exanimate, exterminated, extinguished, fallen, gone, inactive, late, lifeless, lost, no longer… …

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