WordUnscrambler Home
extinct
Definitions
[ɛkˈstɪŋ(k)t], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- (of a species, family, or other group of animals or plants) having no living members; no longer in existence
(e.g: trilobites and dinosaurs are extinct)
- (of a volcano) not having erupted in recorded history
(e.g: the islands are the remains of extinct volcanoes)
Phrases:
Origin
:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘no longer alight’): from Latin exstinct- ‘extinguished’, from the verb exstinguere (see extinguish)
Click here to see the free dictionary definition for extinct
definition by Oxford Dictionaries