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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun also called regionally A freshwater fish (Amia calva) of central and eastern North America, having a large mouth and a long dorsal fin, and producing roe that is sometimes used for caviar.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of the mudfish, Amia calva. Also called brindle, grindle, lawyer, dogfish, etc. See cut under Amiidœ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva, the last survivor of the order Amiiformes found in the fresh waters of the United States.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America

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bow +‎ fin

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