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adjective

Extinct adj.

Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano. "Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct."

Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.

Specifically: Once existing as a species but now having no living members; used of species of living organisms, especially of animals and plants; as, dinosaurs are now extinct; the dodo bird is extinct.

verb

Extinct v. t. To cause to be extinct. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Extinct'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Extinct" Quotes from Famous Books

... rocky and bold outlines, and then another, of lofty mountains whose peaks lose themselves in clouds, and by their fantastic figures form as delightful an horizon as the eye can behold. In the centre rises the conical peak of Monte Cao, an extinct volcano, exactly resembling Vesuvius in conformation, and only wanting a curl of smoke issuing from its crater to make the illusion perfect. Alongside of Monte Cao is another extinct volcano, on which are seen the ruins of the ancient and deserted ...

— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, April 1875, Vol. XV., No. 88 • Various

... past, he wheeled his horse, and rode direct for the cliff of La Nina. Having reached the extremity of the bluff, he halted at a point that commanded a full view of San Ildefonso. In the sombre darkness of night the valley seemed but the vast crater of an extinct volcano; and the lights, glittering in the town and the Presidio, resembled the last sparks of flaming lava that ...

— The White Chief - A Legend of Northern Mexico • Mayne Reid

... other valley frequently visited the ledge and talked with Ned, but the boy saw that they were quietly making arrangements to surround him. Now and then the figure of an Indian appeared on the elevations about the valley, which was the crater of an extinct volcano. ...

— Boy Scouts in an Airship • G. Harvey Ralphson

... development of organic forms on the earth. He infers that many species have kept true for long periods, whereas a few have become modified. The distinction of species he explains by the destruction of intermediate graduated forms. "Thus living plants and animals are not separated from the extinct by new creations, but are to be regarded as their ...

— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin

... Khalif is made a conspicuous figure in Baghdad like Boccaccio's Calandrino and Co. He approaches in type the old Irishman now extinct, destroyed by the reflux action Of Anglo-America (U.S.) upon the miscalled "Emerald Isle." He blunders into doing and saying funny things whose models are the Hibernian "bulls" and acts purely upon the impulse of the moment, never reflecting till (possibly) after ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton

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