de-extinction

English

Etymology

de- +‎ extinction

Noun

de-extinction (usually uncountable, plural de-extinctions)

  1. (biology, neologism) The process of returning an extinct species back into the world.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 309:
      Even this more limited ambition, however, speaks eloquently of the rapid progress being made in the area of de-extinction.
    • 2020, “Life Finds A Way”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:
      The concept of de-extinction is fascinating in much the same way that the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World are.

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