coelacanth

n. 腔棘鱼类的鱼 a. 腔棘鱼类的

发音

US /ˈsiː.lə.kænθ/

词形变化

coelacanths 复数 coelacanths

别名

cœlacanth

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of the class Actinistia of primitive lobe-finned fish, thought to have been extinct for 70 million years until a living specimen was discovered in 1938. Most species are large and plump and they all have bodies covered in tough elasmoid scales that act as armor.

  2. 2.

    Any of the class Actinistia of primitive lobe-finned fish, thought to have been extinct for 70 million years until a living specimen was discovered in 1938. Most species are large and plump and they all have bodies covered in tough elasmoid scales that act as armor.

    Either of the two extant species in this group; the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) or the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis).

    矛尾鱼

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

crossopterygian lobefin

词源

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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