Raise your hands, kids
– how many heard the word “extant” before the popular CBS show popped up on
your TV screen?
Is
it exciting? Is it probing? More to the point – do you know what it MEANS?
EXTANT – (eksʹtant) adj.
to stand out or forth, 1) still existing; not
extinct; not lost or destroyed; 2) (archaic) standing out; conspicuous.
[And now, a thought-provoking Sci-Fi premise.]
There
is extant literature for instance – as in the Beowulf epic poem mentioned in
last week’s Wordplay about firedrakes
(dragons). And, there are extant species …
