Extinct vs Graptolite - What's the difference?
extinct | graptolite |
(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.
Any of a group of extinct aquatic colonial invertebrates, of the class Graptolithina , from the Cambrian and Carboniferous periods
*2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 70:
*:The samples were black shale, and on the shales were some ancient fossils called graptolites .
As an adjective extinct
is extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc..As a noun graptolite is
any of a group of extinct aquatic colonial invertebrates, of the class Graptolithina, from the Cambrian and Carboniferous periods.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 .