HyperDic: lobe-finned_fish

English > 1 sense of the expression lobe-finned fish:
NOUNanimallobe-finned fish, crossopterygian, lobefinany fish of the order Crossopterygii
English > lobe-finned fish: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningAny fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form.
Synonymscrossopterygian, lobefin
Member ofCrossopterygii, subclass Crossopterygiifishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians
Narrowercoelacanth, Latimeria chalumnaefish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
Broaderbony fishAny fish of the class Osteichthyes
Spanishcrosopterigio, lobefin
Catalancrossopterigis, lobefin

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