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LATIMERIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth

Synonyms:

genus Latimeria; Latimeria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Latimeria" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Latimeria"):

coelacanth; Latimeria chalumnae (fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa)

Holonyms ("Latimeria" is a member of...):

family Latimeridae; Latimeridae (extinct except for the coelacanth)

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