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[ adjective ] still in existence
Synonyms 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" Used in print (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)Its citizens spoke all_of the world 's surviving tongues , plus a new one called Lingo , a pidgin whose vocabulary was derived from the other six and whose syntax was so simple it could be contained on half a sheet_of_paper . Related terms |
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