endling

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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

/ˈɛndlɪŋ/

endling endlings

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

lastling

end of the line

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