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COELACANTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coelacanth mean?
• COELACANTH (noun)
The noun COELACANTH has 1 sense:
1. fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
Familiarity information: COELACANTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
coelacanth; Latimeria chalumnae
Hypernyms ("coelacanth" is a kind of...):
crossopterygian; lobe-finned fish; lobefin (any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form)
Holonyms ("coelacanth" is a member of...):
genus Latimeria; Latimeria (type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth)
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