endling

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The last individual of its species or subspecies, which therefore becomes extinct upon its death. rare
    — The last known survivor, the endling of its species, is now stuffed and mounted in a museum in the remote, dusty city of Nukus.

词形变化

endlings plural

词源

From end + -ling, suggested in a 1996 issue of the magazine Nature.
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