LATIMERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Latimeria mean? 

• LATIMERIA (noun)
  The noun LATIMERIA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth

  Familiarity information: LATIMERIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATIMERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Latimeria; Latimeria

Hypernyms ("Latimeria" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Latimeria"):

coelacanth; Latimeria chalumnae (fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa)

Holonyms ("Latimeria" is a member of...):

family Latimeridae; Latimeridae (extinct except for the coelacanth)