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Extinct meaning
Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched. | Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed. | Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, languages, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.
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Extinct languages A number of extinct populations are thought to have spoken Afro-Asiatic languages of the Cushitic branch.
Fossil skull cast of Desmatophoca oregonensis from the extinct Desmatophocidae The ancestors of the Otarioidea and Phocoidea diverged 33 mya. citation The Phocidae are likely to have descended from the extinct family Desmatophocidae in the North Atlantic.
Many birds have become extinct as a result of human activity, especially birds endemic to islands, including many flightless birds (see a more complete list under extinct birds ).
Some extinct varanids reached great size: The giant monitor Megalania is estimated to have reached up to convert long; while the extinct aquatic mosasaurs reached convert.
Some volcanologists refer to extinct volcanoes as inactive, though the term is now more commonly used for dormant volcanoes once thought to be extinct.
Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs should be a winning action romp, but this lackluster film is destined to go extinct from your memory.
Andy Beshear and Brandon Presley are trying to prove they haven’t gone extinct just yet.
ANU ecologist Dr Kara Youngentob has spent two decades studying gliders, which she says are now “functionally extinct” in many locations, meaning the population is not robust enough to sustain itself into the future.
Baby names going extinct after no registrations in 2022… how safe is your name?
Bones of creatures long since extinct littered the dunes, and beneath them, perhaps, lay ancient kingdoms that had come and gone even before that.
But the practice of keeping woolly dogs and weaving textiles made from woolly dog yarn declined throughout the 19th century, and the dogs were considered extinct by the beginning of the 20th century.
Cheetahs have been brought to KNP as part of an ambitious reintroduction project after the species was declared extinct from the country in 1952.
Combining artistry, emotion and pulse-pounding action, the first two seasons of the series followed a caveman at the dawn of evolution as he forms an unlikely friendship with an almost extinct dinosaur.
Daniel said: "In all of the counties surrounding Gloucestershire, adders have gone extinct.
Depending on their industry and business models, many may go extinct if they are unable to leverage cloud-based generative AI effectively and in time.
From The Land Before Time, these are some of the best dinosaur characters that helped make these extinct animals beloved by fans of all ages.
Hardly anywhere else can you encounter so many near-extinct species.
How did the tiger go extinct in Cambodia and why is it trying to reintroduce them from India?
If Israel’s democracy is made extinct and replaced with a theocracy, there’s a substantial price to pay for that.
If we do not find a way to manage for these risks, we will be responsible for letting an entire species of whale go extinct.