单词 | endling |
释义 | endling[ endling ] / ˈɛnd lɪŋ / nounan individual living thing that is the last survivor of its species or subspecies and whose death consequently means the extinction of that species or subspecies: The endling of the once plentiful passenger pigeons was Martha, who died in a zoo in 1914. a person who is the last living member of a family line and whose death consequently means the end of that lineage: Sadly, Kenneth, childless and himself an only child, is soon to leave this world, alone and an endling. Origin of endlingFirst recorded in 1996 in the correspondence in the British journal Nature;end1 + -ling1 Words nearby endlingend in itself, endive, end leaf, endless, end line, endling, endlong, end man, end matter, end member, end mill Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 |
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