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coelacanth
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun coelacanth has 1 sense
- coelacanth(n = noun.animal) latimeria chalumnae - fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa; Array is a kind of crossopterygian, lobe-finned fish, lobefin
is a member of genus latimeria, latimeria
OXFORD DICTIONARY
coelacanth, n. a large bony marine fish, Latimeria chalumnae, formerly thought to be extinct, having a trilobed tail-fin and fleshy pectoral fins.
Etymology
mod.L Coelacanthus f. Gk koilos hollow + akantha spine
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