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Definition of Bowfin

bowfin
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.
Bowfin
Bowfin Bow"fin`, n. (Zo["o]l.) A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

Meaning of Bowfin from wikipedia

- The bowfin (Amia calva) is a ray-finned fish native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and...
- USS Bowfin (SS/AGSS-287), is a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy named for the bowfin fish. Since 1981, she has been open to public tours...
- Amia ocellicauda, the eyespot bowfin, is a species of bowfin native to North America. Originally described by John Richardson from Lake Huron in 1836,...
- Historic Places and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989. The USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park is in remembrance of an American submarine that...
- (SS-581) - Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, OR USS Bowfin (SS-287) - USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park, Pearl Harbor, HI USS Cavalla (SSK-244)...
- United States Navy submarine commander in World War II. He commanded USS Bowfin (SS-287) on her second through fourth patrols, becoming her most successful...
- could still be used for breathing, a trait still present in Holostei (bowfins and gars). In some fish like the arapaima, the swim bladder has been modified...
- was a ****anese p****enger/cargo ship that was sunk by the submarine USS Bowfin during World War II, while carrying hundreds of schoolchildren from Okinawa...
- Amiiformes /ˈæmi.ɪfɔːrmiːz/ order of fish has only two extant species, the bowfins: Amia calva and Amia ocellicauda, the latter recognized as a separate species...
- Amia, commonly called bowfin, is a genus of ray-finned fish related to gars in the infraclass Holostei. They are regarded as taxonomic relicts, being the...