- genus Amia
- nountype genus of the Amiidae• Syn: ↑Amia• Hypernyms: ↑fish genus• Member Holonyms: ↑Amiidae, ↑family Amiidae• Member Meronyms: ↑bowfin, ↑grindle, ↑dogfish, ↑Amia calva
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genus Amia
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Amia — noun type genus of the Amiidae • Syn: ↑genus Amia • Hypernyms: ↑fish genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Amiidae, ↑family Amiidae • Member Meronyms: ↑bowfin … Useful english dictionary
Amia calva — noun primitive long bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America • Syn: ↑bowfin, ↑grindle, ↑dogfish • Hypernyms: ↑ganoid, ↑ganoid fish • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Amia — Amia, AMIA, or AMiA can refer to: *American Medical Informatics Association *Bowfin, a fish genus *Anglican Mission in the Americas *Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For the 1994 … Wikipedia
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}.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Amia calva — Mudfish Mud fish , n. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) The European loach. (b) The bowfin ({Amia calva}). (c) The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species ({Protopterus annectens}). See {Lipedosiren}. (d) The mud minnow, a fish of the genus… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
fish genus — noun any of various genus of fish • Hypernyms: ↑genus • Hyponyms: ↑Cyprinus, ↑genus Cyprinus, ↑Abramis, ↑genus Abramis, ↑Tinca, ↑genus Tinca, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
holostean — ▪ fish Introduction any member of a group of primitive bony fishes (bony fish) that make up one of the three major subdivisions of the superclass Actinopterygii (ray finned fishes). Holosteans are represented today by the bowfins (bowfin)… … Universalium
Bowfin — Taxobox name = Bowfin regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Actinopterygii ordo = Amiiformes ordo authority = Hay, 1929 familia = Amiidae familia authority = Bonaparte, 1838 genus = Amia species = A. calva binomial = Amia calva binomial… … Wikipedia
grindle — noun primitive long bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America • Syn: ↑bowfin, ↑dogfish, ↑Amia calva • Hypernyms: ↑ganoid, ↑ganoid fish • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Amiidae — noun only the bowfins • Syn: ↑family Amiidae • Hypernyms: ↑fish family • Member Holonyms: ↑Ganoidei, ↑order Ganoidei • Member Meronyms: ↑Amia … Useful english dictionary
