Definition of "endangered species" []

• A species present in such small numbers that it is at risk of extinction. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The radio intervention encouraged marriage, the use of family-planning methods, and preservation of the St. Lucian parrot, which was an endangered species because people were taking parrot eggs from the nests the eggs were believed to be an aphrodesiac."
• "Betty was pointing and laughing at the drawing of the nene, a goose that the book said lives in the Hawaiian Islands, where it eats berries and vegetation as it whiles away its days on the endangered species list."
• "Moreover, this program is succeeding within the endangered species capital of the world three quarters of all the bird and plant extinctions in the US have occurred within these islands, and 49 of the 59 endangered species listed by the Obama administration in the past two years have been Hawaiian plants and birds. center Flowers of the presumed extinct Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana."