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LATIMERIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Latimeridae mean? 

LATIMERIDAE (noun)
  The noun LATIMERIDAE has 1 sense:

1. extinct except for the coelacanthplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LATIMERIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Extinct except for the coelacanth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Latimeridae; Latimeridae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Latimeridae"):

genus Latimeria; Latimeria (type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth)

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

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


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