conservation status
noun
The status accorded to an area of special interest, an endangered species, etc., in relation to its need for (legal) protection from undesirable change or the detrimental effects of human activity.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in New Phytologist.
- needle-tree
- needle valve
- turn the other cheek
- turn the scales
- turn the tables
- turn the tide
- turn to ashes in one's mouth
- turn traitor
- turn turtle
- turn up
- turn up one's nose at
- turn up one's toes
- Turow, Scott
- Turpan
- Turpan Depression
- turpentine
- turpentine tree
- Turpin, Dick
- turpitude
- turps
- turquoise
- turret
- turreted
- turret lathe
- turret shell