CROSSOPTERYGIAN

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

crossopterygian; lobe-finned fish; lobefin

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Nouns denoting animals

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

bony fish (any fish of the class Osteichthyes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crossopterygian"):

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

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

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