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‖Amia (), n. [L., fr. Gr.  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 Bowfin.

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Mudfish (?), n. (Zool.) (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 Umbra or family Umbridae. (e) any fish which lives in muddy waters, such as the mummichog, a killifish.

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