bowfin : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bowfin	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for bowfin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bowfin n primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America Synonym(s): bowfin, grindle, dogfish, Amia calva
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Amia \[d8]Am"i*a\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?] a kind of tunny.] (Zo[94]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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bowfin \Bow"fin`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A voracious ganoid fish ({Amia calva}) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also {Johnny Grindle}, and {dogfish}.