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LATIMERIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Extinct except for the coelacanth

Synonyms:

family Latimeridae; Latimeridae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Latimeridae"):

genus Latimeria; Latimeria (type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth)

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

Crossopterygii; subclass Crossopterygii (fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians)

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