Amia

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Amia
       n : type genus of the Amiidae [syn: {genus Amia}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  AMIA
       American Medical Informatics Association (org., USA)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  AMIA
       Australian Medical Informatics Association (org., Australia)