Mudfish

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mudfish \Mud"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
     (a) The European loach.
     (b) The bowfin ({Amia calva}).
     (c) The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African
         species ({Protopterus annectens}). See {Lipedosiren}.
     (d) The mud minnow, a fish of the genus {Umbra} or family


         {Umbridae}.
     (e) any fish which lives in muddy waters, such as the
         {mummichog}, a killifish.
         [1913 Webster +PJC]

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]