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pseudoextinct

adj

Etymology

From pseudo- + extinct.

  1. derived from *stengʷ-✻ — “to push”
  2. derived from extīnctus
  3. inherited from extinct — “eliminated, eradicated, extinguished”
  4. prefixed as pseudoextinct — “pseudo + extinct”

Definitions

  1. extinct, but with members of a daughter species remaining alive

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudoextinct. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA