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Type genus of the Amiidae
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Amia \Am"i*a\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? a kind of tunny.] (Zo["o]l.) 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 .
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Redirect Bowfin Category:Monotypic fish genera
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n. The bowfin, ''Amia calva''.
Usage examples of amia.
MEETING PLACE was in the sallows, the willow thickets down by the Amia as it ran below the smithy.
That had been their signal, summer nights, when they sneaked out to meet in the willow grove down on the banks of the Amia, when everybody else was sleeping.
That had been their signal, summer nights, when they sneaked out to meet in the willow grove, down on the banks of the Amia, when everybody else was sleeping.
Before Serena could rush back to her son, the robot found Amia Yo playing with the child on the kitchen floor.
Saturnia, several miles inland and halfway to Monte Amiata, was now just a small village beside a great stone wall, built round the hot sulphur springs which had made it a favourite spot for the Romans, who celebrated the feast of Saturnalia there.