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amia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun amia has 1 sense
- amia(n = noun.animal) genus amia - type genus of the Amiidae; Array is a kind of fish genus
is a member of amiidae, family amiidae
CIDE DICTIONARY
amia, n. [L., fr. Gr. a kind of tunny.].
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. [1913 Webster]
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