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say it: SEE-luh-kanth
coelacanth is a noun meaning "fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa". It carries one recorded sense.
fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for coelacanth come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.