amia Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun type genus of the Amiidae
genus Amia.
WordNet
Am"i*a noun
Etymology
L., fr. Gr. a kind of tunny.Definitions
(Zoöl.) 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 .
