LOBE-FINNED FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lobe-finned fish mean? 

• LOBE-FINNED FISH (noun)
  The noun LOBE-FINNED FISH has 1 sense:

1. any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form

  Familiarity information: LOBE-FINNED FISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOBE-FINNED FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

crossopterygian; lobe-finned fish; lobefin

Hypernyms ("lobe-finned fish" is a kind of...):

bony fish (any fish of the class Osteichthyes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lobe-finned fish"):

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

Holonyms ("lobe-finned fish" is a member of...):

Crossopterygii; subclass Crossopterygii (fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians)

 Context examples 

Any jawed or jawless organisms in the phylum Chordata including the jawless fish, armored fish, cartilaginous fish, ray-finned fish and lobe-finned fish.

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