endangered
濒危,濒临灭绝,濒临死亡,濒临灭绝的
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- : threatened with a danger: endangered lives of trapped coal miners.
- : Biology, Ecology. generally perceived as threatened with extinction: In 1967, the U.S. government declared the bald eagle endangered, but the national bird’s population recovery since then has been remarkable.
- : Biology, Ecology. having a very high risk of extinction, second only to the status of critically endangered, as categorized by the IUCN Red List: There are more than 3,600 endangered plant species throughout the world.Abbreviation: EN
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It has a full house of endangered great apes and monkeys, including western lowland gorillas, chimpanzees, drill monkeys and a mustached monkey named Kiki.
Testing the limits of brown tree snake agility could help design new baffles or other tools to protect endangered birds on Guam, Savidge says.
Put it all together and you can see why the Democrats’ chances of holding onto the House look pretty good, even if they do have the most endangered incumbent up in 2020.
Other elements found in electronics are considered some of the periodic table’s most endangered.
These programs include searching for invasive species like the zebra mussels and tracking rare and endangered animals.
We need to talk in a different way about how Obama has endangered America.
Botswana has become a haven of sorts for endangered animals.
In a new Republican administration, the EPA might well become an endangered species.
EIA found that some companies are issued licenses to breed endangered animals, including the South China Tiger.
Which brings us to our second question: Why is the Romantic Comedy becoming such an endangered species?
The cubicula were also defaced, their symmetry injured, and their construction endangered by similar imprudent excavations.