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 

• COELACANTH (noun)

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)