The noun extinction can be countable or uncountable. In more general, commonly used, contexts, the plural form will also be extinction. However, in more specific contexts, the plural form can also be extinctions e.g. in reference to various types of extinctions or a collection of extinctions.
What is the plural of extinction?
extinction. Plural. extinctions. The plural form of extinction; more than one (kind of) extinction.
How do you use the word extinction?
Extinction in a Sentence ?
- Extinction of the species happened after poachers killed many of the animals.
- No one is sure what pushed dinosaurs to the point of extinction, but many think it was a meteor.
- The wooly mammoth faced extinction after genetic diseases begin to take over the species.
