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extinct

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extinct
1. (of an animal or plant species) having no living representative; having died out
2. (of a volcano) no longer liable to erupt; inactive


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Now, there was an old manor-house, where they no longer ate snails, they were quite extinct; but the burdocks were not extinct, they grew and grew all over the walks and all the beds; they could not get the mastery over them--it was a whole forest of burdocks.
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context
But by far the most wonderful of all cetacean relics was the almost complete vast skeleton of an extinct monster, found in the year, on the plantation of Judge Creagh, in Alabama.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Yes--what the mendacious family chronicles call extinct in the male line--that is, gone down--gone under.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
 
 
 
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