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GENUS LATIMERIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth
Synonyms:
genus Latimeria; Latimeria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Latimeria" is a kind of...):
fish genus (any of various genus of fish)
Meronyms (members of "genus Latimeria"):
coelacanth; Latimeria chalumnae (fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa)
Holonyms ("genus Latimeria" is a member of...):
family Latimeridae; Latimeridae (extinct except for the coelacanth)
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