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Mudfish
(gcide) | Mudfish \Mud"fish`\, 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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mudfish
(gcide) | Amia \Am"i*a\, 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
(gcide) | Mudfish \Mud"fish`\, 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.
[1913 Webster +PJC]Amia \Am"i*a\, 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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