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coelacanth

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈsiː.lə.kænθ/Part of speech nounSorted aaccehlnotStarts with CEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa

Word origin

From the New Latin genus name Coelacanthus, from Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) + ἄκανθα (ákantha, “spine”), referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839.

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  • Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.

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