单词 | coelacanth |
释义 | coelacanth (once / 176408 pages) n WORD FAMILY coelacanth: coelacanths USAGE EXAMPLESThat raises a puzzling question: If the protein is so bad, why do animals dating back to the 400-million-year-old coelacanth fish taxon produce it? Science Magazine(May 25, 2016) That is because the coelacanth has managed to survive in roughly its current form for hundreds of millions of years. New York Times(Dec 22, 2015) In the same ruling, the court also hinted that the clause was never truly dead—just in hiding, a kind of constitutional coelacanth. Slate(Jun 11, 2015) n fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa Syn|Hyper Latimeria chalumnae crossopterygian, lobe-finned fish, lobefin any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form |
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