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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, ↑grindle, ↑dogfish, ↑Amia calva

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I. \\ˈāmēə, ˈam-\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, a tunny

: a genus of ganoid fishes (order Cycloganoidei) including only the bowfin and being the type of a small otherwise extinct family

II.

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, a tunny

synonym of apogon — a prior use that has been ruled invalid by the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature

Useful english dictionary. 2012.