amia

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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

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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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