Meaning of endling | Babel Free

Definitions

The last individual of its species or subspecies, which therefore becomes extinct upon its death.

rare

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“The last⟳ known survivor, the endling of its species, is now stuffed and mounted in a museum in the remote, dusty city of Nukus.”

“Endlings are also recorded for the quagga, an equine with zebra-like stripes on its front half, which died in 1883 in a zoo in Amsterdam; a Caspian tiger killed in the 1950s in Uzbekistan; and whichever of a pair of great auks killed in 1844 off the coast of Iceland died second.”

“It feels as if I'm the last⟳ one left—a human endling—the world turned silent beneath my boots.”

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