Extinct vs Oolacunta - What's the difference?
extinct | oolacunta |
(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.
An extinct marsupial, the desert rat kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris ), that lived in a sand-ridge and gibber-plain habitat in south-western Queensland and north-eastern Australia.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 25, author=William Grimes, title=A Zoologist With a Pouch of Stories, work=New York Times
, passage=The fabulous oolacunta , a rat kangaroo that is now extinct, streaked across the desert at speeds that made it seem to float above the ground. }}
As an adjective extinct
is extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc..As a noun oolacunta is
an extinct marsupial, the desert rat kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), that lived in a sand-ridge and gibber-plain habitat in south-western Queensland and north-eastern Australia.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 .
Synonyms
* deadAntonyms
* (no longer alight) burning * (having died out) extant * active, dormantExternal links
* *oolacunta
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia oolacunta)citation