ENDANGERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endangered mean? 

• ENDANGERED (adjective)
  The adjective ENDANGERED has 1 sense:

1. (of flora or fauna) in imminent danger of extinction

  Familiarity information: ENDANGERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDANGERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of flora or fauna) in imminent danger of extinction

Context example:

an endangered species

Similar:

vulnerable (susceptible to attack)

Domain category:

flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)

 Context examples 

Not that we would have endangered his safety by any tremendous weather—but only by a steady contrary wind, or a calm.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Researchers say the love youngsters have for wildlife may be clouding the public's mind about how endangered those creatures are.

(Study: Popularity of Wildlife Can Harm Public's Perception, VOA)

Even the areas identified in the study as suitable for deforestation, they are full of critically endangered species.

(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)

The new study asks the IUCN to change the status of cheetah from "vulnerable" to "endangered" in an effort to protect cheetahs.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)

The species is considered endangered due to devil facial tumour 1 (DFT1), a cancer that is passed between animals through the transfer of living cancer cells when the animals bite each other.

(Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils, University of Cambridge)

Yet it is terrible to reflect that the lives of all these men are endangered through me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The European eel is a commercially important species that is critically endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)

This study confirms what was already suspected by conservation scientists: “Amphibians are the most endangered vertebrates on the planet”.

(Deadly fungal disease ‘caused greatest biodiversity loss ever recorded’, SciDev.Net)

The findings are a warning to conservationists that keeping a small pool of endangered animals could result in inbreeding and genomic meltdown.

(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)

And while there is a concerted effort to protect endangered species such as pandas, tigers and rhinos, other organisms are being overlooked.

(Nearly Half the Planet's Species Could Be Wiped Out by the End of This Century, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)