n. 1. a Cretaceous fish, thought to be extinct but found living off the coast of Africa in 1938.
2. a Vietnam-era liberal, still clinging to tired old [neo-Marxist] canards long after everyone else has left the swamp for [dry land]. See [Chomsky]; Kerry; Gore; Jennifer Aniston.

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/topic/135368/coelacanthRSS for NodeTue, 21 Jul 2026 18:20:23 GMTMon, 30 Mar 2020 14:04:01 GMT60A large, bony marine fish with a three-lobed tail fin and fleshy pectoral fins. It is thought to be related to the ancestors of land vertebrates and was known only from fossils until one was found alive in 1938; since then others have been found near the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean and off Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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