'Coelacanth' definitions:
Definition of 'coelacanth'
(from WordNet)
noun
Fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa [syn: coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae]
Definition of 'Coelacanth'
From: GCIDE
- Coelacanth \C[oe]l"a*canth\ (? or ?), a. [Gr. koi^los hollow + ? spine.] (Zool.) Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.