surviving
A botanist carefully studies a surviving wollemi pine in a protected greenhouse.
Adjective: - Continuing to live or exist; remaining alive or in existence after others have died or ceased to be. This describes something or someone that has endured through a challenging event, period of time, or process of elimination.
The adjective "surviving" is used to describe the sole or one of the few remaining examples of a person, group, or thing from the past. It emphasizes endurance through adversity, danger, or the passage of time. - It typically comes before a noun (e.g., the surviving member) or after a linking verb like "is" or "are." - It often implies a contrast with others that did not survive.
- Attributive use (before a noun):
- She is the only surviving witness to the crime.
- The museum displays surviving artifacts from the ancient city.
- Predicative use (after a linking verb):
- This tradition is no longer surviving in its original form.
- After the epidemic, very few members of the community were surviving.
- "the surviving [noun]": A common phrase used to specify what remains from a larger set.
- The surviving manuscripts of the poet's work are housed in the national library.
- Used in legal or formal contexts regarding heirs or relatives.
- The estate was divided among the surviving children.
- Survive (verb): To continue to live or exist, especially in spite of danger or hardship.
- Few buildings survived the earthquake.
- Survival (noun): The state or fact of continuing to live or exist.
- The survival of the species is under threat.
- Survivor (noun): A person who survives, especially a person remaining alive after an event in which others have died.
- The survivors of the shipwreck were rescued.
- Remaining: Left over after others have been removed or used.
- Extant: Still in existence; surviving (used especially of documents or artifacts).
- Enduring: Lasting over a long period; durable.
- Extinct: No longer in existence.
- Deceased: No longer living; dead.
- Lost: No longer possessed or existing.
- Surviving spouse: The husband or wife who remains alive after the other's death.
- The pension benefits are transferred to the surviving spouse.
- Last surviving: The final remaining example or member.
- He was the last surviving veteran of that battle.
A botanist carefully studies a surviving wollemi pine in a protected greenhouse.
- still in existence
- the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil
- the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania