Extinct vs Australopith - What's the difference?
extinct | australopith |
(dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
* Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
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No longer in existence; having died out.
(vulcanology) No longer actively erupting.
(archaeology, anthropology, paleonotology) of or pertaining to the extinct anthropoid apes of the genera Australopithecus'' and ''Paranthropus or their fossils
(archaeology, anthropology, paleonotology) members of the extinct anthropoid apes of the genera Australopithecus'' and ''Paranthropus or their fossils
As adjectives the difference between extinct and australopith
is that extinct is (dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc) while australopith is (archaeology|anthropology|paleonotology) of or pertaining to the extinct hominid primates, of the genus australopithecus , from the pleistocene period.As a noun australopith is
(archaeology|anthropology|paleonotology) any of several extinct hominid primates, of the genus australopithecus , from the pleistocene period.extinct
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct .
- Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system
writes in there'' as two words but ''therein'' as one word might be taken as suggest-
ing that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern
English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a
few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as ''thereby .
- The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
- Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct .