COELACANTH

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coelacanth

coe la canth |ˈsēləˌkanTH ˈsiləˌkænθ | ▶noun a large, bony marine fish with a three-lobed tail fin and fleshy pectoral fins. It is thought to be related to the ancestors of land vertebrates and was known only from fossils until one was found alive in 1938; since then others have been found near the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean and off Sulawesi, Indonesia. [Latimeria chalumnae, family Latimeriidae (or Coelacanthidae ), subclass Crossopterygii. ] ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from modern Latin Coelacanthus (genus name ), from Greek koilos ‘hollow ’ + akantha ‘spine ’ (because its fins have hollow spines ).

coelacanth

coelacanth |ˈsiːləkanθ | ▶noun a large bony marine fish with a three-lobed tail fin and fleshy pectoral fins. It was known only from fossils until one was found alive in 1938; since then others have been found near the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean and off Sulawesi, Indonesia. ●Latimeria chalumnae, family Latimeriidae (or Coelacanthidae ), subclass Crossopterygii. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from modern Latin Coelacanthus (genus name ), from Greek koilos ‘hollow ’ + akantha ‘spine ’ (its fins have hollow spines ).

coelacanth

coe la canth /síːləkæ̀nθ / (! coe-は /siː /) 名詞 C シーラカンス 〘中生代の硬骨魚類の一種; 「生きた化石 」と呼ばれる 〙.