Local English word record

surviving

adjective · 1 sense

still in existence

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Examples

  • the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil
  • the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania

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Synonyms

living

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