endling
/ˈɛndlɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The last individual of its species or subspecies, which therefore becomes extinct upon its death.
Example Sentences
- "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."