"coelacanth" meaning in English

See coelacanth in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈsiː.lə.kænθ/ Audio: En-us-coelacanth.ogg Forms: coelacanths [plural]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|NL.|-}} New Latin, {{taxlink|Coelacanthus|genus}} Coelacanthus, {{der|en|grc|κοῖλος||hollow}} Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} coelacanth (plural coelacanths)
  1. Either of two species of deep-water fish, Latimeria chalumnae of the Indian Ocean and Latimeria menadoensis of Indonesia. Synonyms: gombessa Translations (either of two species of deep-water fish): চিলাকেন্থ (silakentho) (Assamese), চিলাকেন মাছ (silaken mas) (Assamese), 矛尾魚 (Chinese Cantonese), 矛尾鱼 (alt: maau⁴ mei⁵ jyu⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 矛尾鱼 (máowěiyú) (Chinese Mandarin), latimeria (Finnish), cœlacanthe [masculine] (French), Quastenflosser [masculine] (German), κοιλάκανθος (koilákanthos) [masculine] (Greek), ikan raja laut (Indonesian), celacanto [masculine] (Italian), シーラカンス (shīrakansu) (Japanese), celacant [masculine] (Occitan), latimeria [feminine] (Polish), celacanto [masculine] (Portuguese), celacant [masculine] (Romanian), целака́нт (celakánt) [masculine] (Russian), латиме́рия (latimérija) [feminine] (Russian), celacanto [masculine] (Spanish), kvastfening [common-gender] (Swedish), havstofsstjärt [common-gender] (Swedish), tofsstjärtfisk [common-gender] (Swedish), blå kvastfening [common-gender] (Swedish), ꠍꠤꠟꠣꠇꠦꠘ ꠝꠣꠍ (sílaxen masó) (Sylheti), cá vây tay (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-coelacanth-en-noun-8MjUWGZ7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'either of two species of deep-water fish': 89 11
  2. Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years. Categories (lifeform): Lobe-finned fishes Translations (any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes): 空棘魚 (Chinese Cantonese), 空棘鱼 (alt: hung¹ gik¹ jyu⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 空棘鱼 (kōngjíyú) (Chinese Mandarin), varsieväkala (Finnish), κοιλάκανθος (koilákanthos) [masculine] (Greek), latimeria (Indonesian), シーラカンス (shīrakansu) (Japanese), целака́нт (celakánt) [masculine] (Russian), celacanto [masculine] (Spanish), lobfenig (Swedish), kvastfening [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-coelacanth-en-noun-5VqQu~eW Disambiguation of Lobe-finned fishes: 43 57 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Assamese translations, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Sylheti translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 34 66 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Assamese translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Occitan translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Sylheti translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of 'any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes': 12 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cœlacanth [obsolete] Derived forms: coelacanthid, coelacanthine, coelacanthous

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "coelacanthid"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "coelacanthine"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "coelacanthous"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "NL.",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "New Latin",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Coelacanthus",
        "2": "genus"
      },
      "expansion": "Coelacanthus",
      "name": "taxlink"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "κοῖλος",
        "4": "",
        "5": "hollow"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coelacanths",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "coelacanth (plural coelacanths)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Either of two species of deep-water fish, Latimeria chalumnae of the Indian Ocean and Latimeria menadoensis of Indonesia."
      ],
      "id": "en-coelacanth-en-noun-8MjUWGZ7",
      "links": [
        [
          "Indian Ocean",
          "Indian Ocean"
        ],
        [
          "Indonesia",
          "Indonesia"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gombessa"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "as",
          "lang": "Assamese",
          "roman": "silakentho",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "word": "চিলাকেন্থ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "as",
          "lang": "Assamese",
          "roman": "silaken mas",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "word": "চিলাকেন মাছ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "word": "矛尾魚"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "alt": "maau⁴ mei⁵ jyu⁴⁻²",
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "word": "矛尾鱼"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "máowěiyú",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "word": "矛尾鱼"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "word": "latimeria"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cœlacanthe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Quastenflosser"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "koilákanthos",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "κοιλάκανθος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "word": "ikan raja laut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "celacanto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shīrakansu",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "word": "シーラカンス"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "celacant"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "latimeria"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "celacanto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "celacant"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "celakánt",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "целака́нт"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "latimérija",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "латиме́рия"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "celacanto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "kvastfening"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "havstofsstjärt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "tofsstjärtfisk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "blå kvastfening"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "syl",
          "lang": "Sylheti",
          "roman": "sílaxen masó",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "word": "ꠍꠤꠟꠣꠇꠦꠘ ꠝꠣꠍ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
          "word": "cá vây tay"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 66",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Assamese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Cantonese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 57",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 57",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Occitan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 57",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Sylheti translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 57",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Lobe-finned fishes",
          "orig": "en:Lobe-finned fishes",
          "parents": [
            "Fish",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 32:",
          "text": "Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years."
      ],
      "id": "en-coelacanth-en-noun-5VqQu~eW",
      "links": [
        [
          "lobe",
          "lobe"
        ],
        [
          "finned",
          "finned"
        ],
        [
          "Coelacanthiformes",
          "Coelacanthiformes#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "extinct",
          "extinct"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
          "word": "空棘魚"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "alt": "hung¹ gik¹ jyu⁴⁻²",
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
          "word": "空棘鱼"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "kōngjíyú",
          "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
          "word": "空棘鱼"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
          "word": "varsieväkala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "koilákanthos",
          "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "κοιλάκανθος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
          "word": "latimeria"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shīrakansu",
          "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
          "word": "シーラカンス"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "celakánt",
          "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "целака́нт"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "celacanto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
          "word": "lobfenig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 88",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "kvastfening"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsiː.lə.kænθ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-coelacanth.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a3/En-us-coelacanth.ogg/En-us-coelacanth.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/En-us-coelacanth.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "cœlacanth"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Louis Agassiz"
  ],
  "word": "coelacanth"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from New Latin",
    "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "English terms derived from New Latin",
    "Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Assamese translations",
    "Terms with Cantonese translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Indonesian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Occitan translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Sylheti translations",
    "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
    "en:Lobe-finned fishes"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "coelacanthid"
    },
    {
      "word": "coelacanthine"
    },
    {
      "word": "coelacanthous"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "NL.",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "New Latin",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Coelacanthus",
        "2": "genus"
      },
      "expansion": "Coelacanthus",
      "name": "taxlink"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "κοῖλος",
        "4": "",
        "5": "hollow"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coelacanths",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "coelacanth (plural coelacanths)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Either of two species of deep-water fish, Latimeria chalumnae of the Indian Ocean and Latimeria menadoensis of Indonesia."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Indian Ocean",
          "Indian Ocean"
        ],
        [
          "Indonesia",
          "Indonesia"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gombessa"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 32:",
          "text": "Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lobe",
          "lobe"
        ],
        [
          "finned",
          "finned"
        ],
        [
          "Coelacanthiformes",
          "Coelacanthiformes#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "extinct",
          "extinct"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsiː.lə.kænθ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-coelacanth.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a3/En-us-coelacanth.ogg/En-us-coelacanth.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/En-us-coelacanth.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "cœlacanth"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "as",
      "lang": "Assamese",
      "roman": "silakentho",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "word": "চিলাকেন্থ"
    },
    {
      "code": "as",
      "lang": "Assamese",
      "roman": "silaken mas",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "word": "চিলাকেন মাছ"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "word": "矛尾魚"
    },
    {
      "alt": "maau⁴ mei⁵ jyu⁴⁻²",
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "word": "矛尾鱼"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "máowěiyú",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "word": "矛尾鱼"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "word": "latimeria"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cœlacanthe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Quastenflosser"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "koilákanthos",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "κοιλάκανθος"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "word": "ikan raja laut"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "celacanto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shīrakansu",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "word": "シーラカンス"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "celacant"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "latimeria"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "celacanto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "celacant"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "celakánt",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "целака́нт"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "latimérija",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "латиме́рия"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "celacanto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kvastfening"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "havstofsstjärt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tofsstjärtfisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "blå kvastfening"
    },
    {
      "code": "syl",
      "lang": "Sylheti",
      "roman": "sílaxen masó",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "word": "ꠍꠤꠟꠣꠇꠦꠘ ꠝꠣꠍ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "either of two species of deep-water fish",
      "word": "cá vây tay"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
      "word": "空棘魚"
    },
    {
      "alt": "hung¹ gik¹ jyu⁴⁻²",
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
      "word": "空棘鱼"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kōngjíyú",
      "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
      "word": "空棘鱼"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
      "word": "varsieväkala"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "koilákanthos",
      "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "κοιλάκανθος"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
      "word": "latimeria"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shīrakansu",
      "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
      "word": "シーラカンス"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "celakánt",
      "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "целака́нт"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "celacanto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
      "word": "lobfenig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kvastfening"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Louis Agassiz"
  ],
  "word": "coelacanth"
}

Download raw JSONL data for coelacanth meaning in English (8.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.