Converse of object

• kill: Rewards were offered to people for killing thylacines, but even then, their numbers seemed to stay fairly constant.

Adjective modifier

• extinct: Julia Leigh, author of The Hunter, writes Back from the dead, on the hype surrounding plans to clone the extinct thylacine.

Modifies a noun

• thylacinus: The recently extinct marsupial thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, was the largest living mammalian carnivore in Australia.

• cynocephalus: The recently extinct marsupial thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, was the largest living mammalian carnivore in Australia.