pseudoextinction

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Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ extinction.

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Noun

pseudoextinction (countable and uncountable, plural pseudoextinctions)

  1. phyletic extinction; the situation where all members of a species are extinct, but members of a daughter species remain alive