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FAMILY LATIMERIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Latimeridae mean?
• FAMILY LATIMERIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY LATIMERIDAE has 1 sense:
1. extinct except for the coelacanth
Familiarity information: FAMILY LATIMERIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extinct except for the coelacanth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Latimeridae; Latimeridae
Hypernyms ("family Latimeridae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Latimeridae"):
genus Latimeria; Latimeria (type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth)
Holonyms ("family Latimeridae" is a member of...):
Crossopterygii; subclass Crossopterygii (fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians)
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