Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun coelacanth

1 sense of coelacanth

Sense 1
coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae -- (fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa)
       => crossopterygian, lobefin, lobe-finned fish -- (any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form)