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Definition of Extinctions
1. extinction [n] - See also: extinction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extinctions
Literary usage of Extinctions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Evolution: A Text Book by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... RACIAL OLD AGE, Extinctions RECAPITULATION The celebrated German savant, Ernst
Haeckel, conceived and set forth in the form of a law the wonderful ..."
2. Inquiry Into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages, Before, and After by John Riddell (1842)
"... including extinctions; and it is remarkable that, in this instance,—so different
from in that of Rutherford,—as has been shewn,1 general services, ..."
3. Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States (1994)
"The worst NIS have caused species extinctions and wholesale transformations of
... Species extinctions do not have to occur for biological communities to be ..."
4. A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe by John William Draper (1863)
"Proofs of the same from organic Facts.—Successive Creations and Extinctions of
living Forms, and their contemporaneous ..."
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