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Extant is the opposite of the word extinct. It may refer to: Extant hereditary titles; Extant literature, surviving literature, such as Beowulf, the oldest extant manuscript written in English; Extant taxon, a taxon which is not extinct, such as an extant species; Extant Theatre Company, a disability arts organisation
The term ex-ante (sometimes written ex ante or exante) is a New Latin phrase meaning "before the event". [1] In economics, ex-ante or notional demand refers to the desire for goods and services that is not backed by the ability to pay for those goods and services. This is also termed as 'wants of people'.
A living fossil is a deprecated term for an extant taxon that phenotypically resembles related species known only from the fossil record. To be considered a living fossil, the fossil species must be old relative to the time of origin of the extant clade. Living fossils commonly are of species-poor lineages, but they need not be.
The stem of a plant, especially a woody one; also used to mean a rootstock, or particularly a basal stem structure or storage organ from which new growth arises. Compare lignotuber. caudiciform Stem-like or caudex-like; sometimes used to mean "pachycaul", meaning "thick-stemmed". caudicle diminutive of caudex.
The Hominidae (/ h ɒ ˈ m ɪ n ɪ d iː /), whose members are known as the great apes [note 1] or hominids (/ ˈ h ɒ m ɪ n ɪ d z /), are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); Gorilla (the eastern and western gorilla); Pan (the chimpanzee and the bonobo); and Homo, of which only modern humans ...
The linguist and etymologist Anatoly Liberman describes the terms as synonyms. [7] In the Antwerp Glossary bæddel is used to gloss two Latin phrases: Anareporesis, i. homo utriusque generis ('andreporesis, i.e. man of both sexes') and Hermafroditus (' hermaphrodite '). These are the two extant glosses for the word.
Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.It is the study of extant taxa (singular: extant taxon): taxa (such as species, genera and families) with members still alive, as opposed to (all) being extinct.
It is the only extant member of the genus Dromaius and the third-tallest living bird after its African ratite relatives, the common ostrich and Somali ostrich. The emu's native ranges cover most of the Australian mainland. The Tasmanian, Kangaroo Island and King Island subspecies became extinct after the European settlement of Australia in 1788.