Associations to the word «Coelacanth»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

COELACANTH, noun. Fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa.

Wise words

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