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COELACANTH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africaplay

Synonyms:

coelacanth; Latimeria chalumnae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

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