ENDANGERED SPECIES

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Meaning:

A species whose numbers are so small that the species is at risk of extinction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("endangered species" is a kind of...):

species ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "endangered species"):

Australian lungfish; Neoceratodus forsteri; Queensland lungfish (an endangered species of lungfish found in rivers in Queensland)