Definition of amia

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Amia (n.) 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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Cycloganoidei :: Cycloganoidei (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example..
Aramaic :: Aramaic (a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee..
Moody :: Moody (superl.) Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed..
Ule :: Ule (n.) A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilloa elastica and C. Markhamiana) related to the breadfruit tree. Its milky juice contains caoutchouc. Called also ule tree.
Zamite :: Zamite (n.) A fossil cycad of the genus Zamia.
Unamiable :: Unamiable (a.) Not amiable; morose; ill-natured; repulsive.
Vinagrous :: Vinagrous (a.) Fig.: Unamiable; morose.
Phenogamous :: Phenogamous (a.) Same as Phaenogamian, Phaenogamic, etc..
Pteridophyta :: Pteridophyta (n. pl.) A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia..
Potamian :: Potamian (n.) A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx..
Cryptogamous :: Cryptogamous (a.) Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series..
Bergamot :: Bergamot (n.) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit..
Monogamous :: Monogamous (a.) Same as Monogamian.
Phaenogamia :: Phaenogamia (n. pl.) The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.
Tetradynamous :: Tetradynamous (a.) Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others..
Amia :: Amia (n.) 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..
Phanerogamia :: Phanerogamia (n. pl.) That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants..
Cryptogamian :: Cryptogamian (a.) Alt. of Cryptogamou.
Ambulator :: Ambulator (n.) A beetle of the genus Lamia.
Cryptogam :: Cryptogam (n.) A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.
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