Amia

noun

1. A genus of ganoid fishes, typical of the family Amiidæ, Amia calva being the only extant species. It inhabits the fresh waters of North America, and is known as the bowfin, dogfish, mudfish, lawyer, brindle, grindle, and John A. Grindle. The fish known as amia to the ancients was a very different one. Also called Amiatus. See cut under Amiidæ.
2. A genus of acanthopterygian fishes: synonymous with Apogon. Gronovius.
3. 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.
4. The bowfin; Amia calva
5. type genus of the Amiidae