de-extinct
English
Etymology
de- + extinct
Verb
de-extinct (third-person singular simple present de-extincts, present participle de-extincting, simple past and past participle de-extincted)
- (biology, neologism, transitive) The return an extinct species back into the world.
- 2016, Helen Pilcher, Bring Back the King: the new science of de-extinction, Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN, page 16:
- In 2012, Australian researchers briefly de-extincted an amphibian they dubbed ‘the Lazarus frog’ (Rheobatrachus silus), an unusual creature with one hell of a party trick (to find out what it was, you’ll have to read Chapter 5).
- 2020, “Life Finds A Way”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:
- Revive & Restore, a branch of the Long Now Foundation, is currently attempting to de-extinct the passenger pigeon in a project called The Great Comeback.
Related terms
- de-extinction