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unextinct

  • a word derived from extinct.
    extinct
    adjective
    no longer in existence; having ended or died out.

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Turn that phrase around, and you’ll see that the ability to clone two birds in a lab does not make a species unextinct.

From Slate Mar. 18, 2013

His experience had been so wide and varied that he now had only to be shown a bone of fact and almost instantly he visioned in their completeness unextinct ichthyosauri of business.

From Children of the Whirlwind by Leroy Scott

But it is in the love of unextinct animals that Mr. Hodgson's poetic powers find their most effective display.

From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Lyon Phelps

This war continued to rage more or less violently for several years, frequently slumbering, sometimes breaking out with sudden violence, like the fitful eruptions of the still unextinct volcanoes in those distant, regions.

From Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

These reflections occurred to me on descending from the summit of the peak of Teneriffe, the first unextinct volcano I had yet visited.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross

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