Extinct
[ik-stingkt] /ɪkˈstɪŋkt/
adjective
1.
no longer in existence; that has ended or died out:
an extinct species of fish.
2.
no longer in use; obsolete:
an extinct custom.
3.
extinguished; quenched; not burning.
4.
having ceased eruption; no longer active:
an extinct volcano.
/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/
adjective
1.
(of an animal or plant species) having no living representative; having died out
2.
quenched or extinguished
3.
(of a volcano) no longer liable to erupt; inactive
4.
void or obsolete: an extinct political office
adj.
early 15c., from Latin extinctus/exstinctus, past participle of extinguere/exstinguere (see extinguish). Originally of fires; the sense of the condition of “dying out” of a family or a hereditary title, 1580s; of species by 1768. Cf. extinction.
extinct
(ĭk-stĭngkt’)
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