"Diatryma" is a word in ENGLISH

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.

In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an …

A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.

A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical …

The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid.

One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized …

A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with …

An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.

The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a …

That extinction of civil rights and capacities which takes place when-ever a person who has committed treason or felony receives …

A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. The great auk, now extinct, is …

The European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian …

A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, …

One of an extinct English order of monks.

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire …

A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, …

An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.