Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A species present in such small numbers that it is at risk of extinction.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A species of plant or animal that has declined in numbers to a point where further irreversible decline and extinction{3} has a significant chance. Lists of
endangered species are maintained by government agencies, and in many cases the killing of such species or destruction of their habitat is prohibited by law.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a species whose numbers are so small that the species is at risk of extinction
Examples
“The radio intervention encouraged marriage, the use of family-planning methods, and preservation of the St. Lucian parrot, which was an endangered species because people were taking parrot eggs from the nests the eggs were believed to be an aphrodesiac.”
“Betty was pointing and laughing at the drawing of the nene, a goose that the book said lives in the Hawaiian Islands, where it eats berries and vegetation as it whiles away its days on the endangered species list.”
“Moreover, this program is succeeding within the endangered species capital of the world three quarters of all the bird and plant extinctions in the US have occurred within these islands, and 49 of the 59 endangered species listed by the Obama administration in the past two years have been Hawaiian plants and birds. center Flowers of the presumed extinct Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘endangered species’.
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AGRI - sustainable agriculture
abiota, aborigines, absorptive capacity, acceptable daily ..., acclimation, acid precipitation, acquired by weeds..., active solar heating, acute, adaptation, additives, aerosol and 447 more...
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ENVI - Collocations DEFG
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
dactylis glomerata, daily allowance, daily contact zone, daily cycle of tides, daily intake level, daily mortality rate, daily office and ..., daily peak, daily range in va..., daily runoff regu..., daily SO2 levels, dairy cattle and 5213 more...
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Earth-Friendly Organic Produce
An Ecosystem of earth/life-related words.
blueskycloudform, sojourn, reuse, reduce, compostable, habitat, ecology, bionomics, Eco-Art, sustainability, forest garden, biosystems and 47 more...
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vaca 22000_5
vaca 22000_5
pollution, contamination, wastes, recycle, acid rain, the ozone layer, green house effect, preservation, conservation, wild life, endangered species, habitat
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