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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK] 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

Noun.

A genus of fish, of the abdominal order, found in the rivers of Carolina.

See also: amia and Amia

àmia f (plural àmie)