coelacanth

2 definitions found

coelacanth - 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.

coelacanth - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]