单词 | coelacanth |
释义 | coelacanth —coelacanthine /see'leuh kan"thuyn, -thin/, adj. /see"leuh kanth'/, n. a crossopterygian fish, Latimeria chalumnae, thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous Period but found in 1938 off the coast of southern Africa. [1605-15; < NL Coelacanthus orig. a genus name, equiv. to coel- COEL- + Gk -akanthos -spined, -thorned, adj. deriv of ákantha spine, thorn] |
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