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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organism, such as the coelacanth or ginkgo, that is similar in appearance to its fossilized distant ancestors and usually has no extant close relatives.
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- noun Any species discovered first as a
fossil and believedextinct , but which is later found living. - noun Any living
species which very closely resembles fossilrelatives in mostanatomical details.
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