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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)