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1. (n.) coelacanth
a heavy, hollow-spined fish, Latimeria chalumnae, of deep S African coastal seas, that crawls on the sea bottom with lobed, limblike fins: a living fossil of the order Crossopterygii, considered forerunners of the land vertebrates.
enterocoele.
Etymology: (1860–65; < NL Coelacanthus orig. a genus name =coel-coel - + Gk -akanthos -spined, adj. der. of ákantha spine, thorn)
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1. (noun) coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae
fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
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1. (adj) coelacanth
having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes
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