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coelacanth

/ˈsiː.lə.kænθ/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Either of two species of deep-water fish, Latimeria chalumnae of the Indian Ocean and Latimeria menadoensis of Indonesia.
  2. Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

latimeria chalumnae(English)cœlacanth(English)coelacanthoid(English)coelacanthiform(English)latimeriid(English)latimerid(English)malacanthid(English)notacanthid(English)comoros(English)triassic(English)fishes(English)devonian(English)

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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