Coelacanth definition

Coelacanth





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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coelacanth \C[oe]l"a*canth\ (? or ?), a. [Gr. koi^los hollow + ?
     spine.] (Zool.)
     Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  coelacanth
       n : fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous
           Period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa [syn: {Latimeria
           chalumnae}]

















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