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extinct
Significat
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- 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, 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.
- Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
- Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
- Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
- (obsolete) Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
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ex‧tinct
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ɪkˈstɪŋ(k)t/
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The species was originally considered already extinct at the time of its discovery .
The species was originally considered already extinct at the time of its discovery.