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单词 coelacanth
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
coe•la•canth  (sē′lə kanth′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Fisha crossopterygian fish, Latimeria chalumnae, thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous Period but found in 1938 off the coast of southern Africa.
  • Neo-Latin Coelacanthus origin, originally a genus name, equivalent. to coel- coel- + Greek -akanthos -spined, -thorned, adjective, adjectival deriv of ákantha spine, thorn
  • 1605–15;
coe•la•can•thine  (sē′lə kan′thīn, -thin),USA pronunciation adj. 
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
coelacanth /ˈsiːləˌkænθ/ n
  1. a primitive marine bony fish of the genus Latimeria (subclass Crossopterygii), having fleshy limblike pectoral fins and occurring off the coast of E Africa: thought to be extinct until a living specimen was discovered in 1938
Etymology: 19th Century: from New Latin coelacanthus, literally: hollow spine, from coel- + Greek akanthos spine
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