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Definition of Coelacanth
1. Noun. Fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa.
Generic synonyms: Crossopterygian, Lobe-finned Fish, Lobefin
Group relationships: Genus Latimeria, Latimeria
Definition of Coelacanth
1. Noun. Either of two species of deep-water fish, ''Latimeria chalumnae'' of the Indian Ocean and ''L. menadoensis'' of Indonesia. ¹
2. Noun. Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years. ¹
3. Noun. A species of deep-water fish of the Indian Ocean, ''Latimeria chalumnae'', thought until 1938 (C.E.) to have been (extinct) for 70 million years. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coelacanth
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coelacanth
Literary usage of Coelacanth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley: Supplementary Volume by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster, Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"This coelacanth appears to have attained much larger dimensions, as a fragmentary
specimen from the same locality has neural arches O'45 in. long, ..."
2. The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness by Hugh Miller, Louis Agassiz (1868)
"Now, in the coelacanth family, (and on this special point the foregoing remarks
are intended to bear,) the scales, which were generally of a round or ..."
3. Coal: Its History and Uses by Alexander Henry Green, Louis Compton Miall, Arthur William Rücker, Alfred Marshall (1878)
"The coelacanth family persists from the Carboniferous through the Permian to the
Triassic period; it is represented ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1868)
"A coelacanth fish, remarkable for its resemblance, especially in the contour of
the head, to the Cretaceous genus ..."
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