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  • 31Extinct species — This page features extinct species, organisms that have become extinct.* pink hooseafus * yellow orange, money tree …

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  • 32Extinct (2001 TV series) — Infobox Television show name = Extinct caption = show name 2 = genre = Documentary creator = director = Jenny Ash, Russell Barnes creative director = developer = presenter = starring = voices = narrated = Alun Armstrong theme music composer =… …

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  • 33extinct in the wild — in the IUCN Criteria for threatened species, a taxon is Extinct in the Wild when it is known only to survive in cultivation, in captivity or as a naturalised population (or populations) well outside the past range. A taxon is presumed extinct in… …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 34extinct — adjective /ɪkˈstɪŋkt,ɛkˈstɪŋkt/ a) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.) Poor Edwards cigarillo was already extinct. b) No longer in existence; having died out. Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological… …

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  • 35extinct — [15] Latin stinguere appears originally to have meant ‘prick, stick’ (a sense revealed in the derivative from which English gets distinct), but in historical times the only record of it we have is in the later, and rather remote metaphorical… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 36extinct — adjective 1) an extinct species Syn: vanished, lost, died out, no longer existing, no longer extant, wiped out, destroyed, gone Ant: extant 2) an extinct volcano Syn …

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  • 37extinct —   No longer existing, e.g. Encephalartos woodii is believed to be extinct in the wild; among the very many extinct cycad genera are Ceratozamites, Crossozamia, Dioonites, Eostangeria, Palaeocycas, Pseudoctenis, Ticoa, and Zamites.   See also… …

    Expanded glossary of Cycad terms

  • 38Extinct —   (EX)   IUCN Red List category in which there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual of a taxon has died; a taxon is presumed Extinct when exhaustive surveys in known and/or expected habitat, at appropriate times (diurnal, seasonal,… …

    Expanded glossary of Cycad terms

  • 39Extinct in the Wild —   (EW)   IUCN Red List category in which a taxon is known only to survive in cultivation; a taxon is presumed Extinct in the Wild when exhaustive surveys in known and/or expected habitat, at appropriate times (diurnal, seasonal, annual),… …

    Expanded glossary of Cycad terms

  • 40extinct — adjective 1) an extinct species Syn: vanished, lost, gone, died out, wiped out, destroyed 2) an extinct volcano Syn: inactive • Ant: living, dorma …

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