WordCmp.com

Latimeria chalumnae vs crossopterygian

crossopterygian vs Latimeria chalumnae

Latimeria chalumnae and crossopterygian both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
Latimeria chalumnae Yes No No No
crossopterygian Yes No No No
As nouns, crossopterygian is a hypernym of Latimeria chalumnae; that is, crossopterygian is a word with a broader meaning than Latimeria chalumnae:
  • Latimeria chalumnae: fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
  • crossopterygian: any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form
Other hypernyms of Latimeria chalumnae include lobe-finned fish, lobefin.
Latimeria chalumnae (noun) crossopterygian (noun)
fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form
Difference between Latimeria chalumnae and crossopterygian

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.