COELACANTH - Definition

Pronunciation:		'seelu`kanth
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous Period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa

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	Synonyms:	Latimeria chalumnae

	See Also:	crossopterygian, genus Latimeria, Latimeria, lobefin, lobe-finned fish

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\C[oe]l"a*canth\ (? or ?), a. [Gr. ? hollow + ? spine.] (Zo["o]l.) Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.