Amia

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun 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.

Related Words

amia
ămĭa, ae, f., and ămĭas, ae, m., = ἀμία, the tunny , a sea-fish : (piscem) amiam vocant cujus etc.,...

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