English noun: coelacanth | |||
1. | coelacanth (animal) fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa | ||
Synonyms | Latimeria chalumnae | ||
Broader (hypernym) | crossopterygian, lobe-finned fish, lobefin | ||
Member meronym | genus Latimeria, Latimeria | ||