Amia

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:45:38

Am"i*a (#), n. [L., fr. Gr. a kind of tunny.] Zool.

A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

 

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