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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. Yes--what the mendacious family chronicles call extinct in the male line--that is, gone down--gone under. |
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