Coelacanth

Quick meaning: Coelacanth is a noun meaning Any of the class Actinistia of primitive lobe-finned fish, thought to have been extinct for 70 million years until a living specimen was discovered in 1938. Most species are large and plump and they all have bodies covered in tough elasmoid scales that act as armor.

Meaning

Any of the class Actinistia of primitive lobe-finned fish, thought to have been extinct for 70 million years until a living specimen was discovered in 1938. Most species are large and plump and they all have bodies covered in tough elasmoid scales that act as armor.

Example Sentences

Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.

Word Forms

• coelacanths

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coelacanthoid, coelacanthiform, latimeriid, latimerid, malacanthid, notacanthid.

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