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surviving

adjective

Still in existence

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Word length
9
Starts with
S
Ends with
G
Contains
UR
Scrabble score
16
CEFR level
A2

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adjective

  1. Still in existence

    “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”

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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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