Word: extinct
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...present day aurochs is not to be confused with the original aurochs, a wild ox of Europe last seen in 1627 in Poland. After the extinction of the wild ox, the name "aurochs" was applied in common parlance to the European bison. This animal, too, is nearly extinct. During the War, scores died of starvation in Poland, Lithuania, the Caucasus. Only a few bulls are left, fewer cows. One bull survives in the zoological park at Berlin, another at Springe, several on the estate of Viscount Hereford in England...
Example: Both Scientist Haldane and Lord Birkenhead feel that eventually the farmer will become extinct, driven off his land by great synthetic food factories which will make things to eat cheaper than they can be grown...
...gesture worthy of France: the Lafayette should come bearing if not La Fayettes, then, since the male line is extinct, descendent Dampierres...
Though generally considered an almost extinct disease, leprosy still grips between two and three million sufferers. Most of these are herded into colonies which dot the globe. There they are treated, often cured...
Three worlds record heads and four heads of species of deer that are now extinct in the wild state have been discovered in the collection of horns and antlers, recently presented to the University by J.C. Phillips '99, which has just been put on display in the Agassiz Museum...