A paleontologist in Texas has identified a new species of coelacanth, an ancient fish most closely related to land-dwelling vertebrates, including humans.
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Land-dwelling
Synonyms for "land-dwelling" (14 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (3)
Adjective(3 words)
Strong matches (4)
Noun(2 words)
land organismland plant
Adjective(2 words)
Related words (7)
Adjective(7 words)
terrestrial biology unitterrestrial environmentsterrestrial globeterrestrial habitatterrestrial life formsterrestrial objectterrestrial organism
Related word relations
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More general
2 entrieshabitat typeterrestrial descriptor
More specific
3 entriesland-dwelling insectland-dwelling mammalland-dwelling reptile
Collocations
6 entriesland-dwelling animalland-dwelling insectland-dwelling mammalland-dwelling organismland-dwelling reptileland-dwelling species
Inflections
2 entriesmore land-dwellingmost land-dwelling
Derivations
1 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Millions of years ago, whales were land-dwelling animals.
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