1. fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa; [syn: coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Latimeria chalumnae
n 1: fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous
period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa [syn:
coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae]