Search Result for "coelacanth": 
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Coelacanth \C[oe]l"a*canth\ (? or ?), a. [Gr. koi^los hollow + ?
   spine.] (Zool.)
   Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

coelacanth
    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]