[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)


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Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘no longer alight’): from Latin exstinct- ‘extinguished’, from the verb exstinguere (see extinguish)