What is another word for amia?

Pronunciation: [ˈamiə] (IPA)

Synonyms for Amia:

What are the hypernyms for Amia?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Amia?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

What are the holonyms for Amia?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.

What are the meronyms for Amia?

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Usage examples for Amia

If we except the Placoids already alluded to, and a few other families of doubtful affinities, all the Old Red Sandstone fishes are Ganoids, an order so named by Agassiz from the shining outer surface of their scales; but Professor Huxley has also called our attention to the fact that, while a few of the primary and the great majority of the secondary Ganoids resemble the living bony pike, Lepidosteus, or the amia, genera now found in North American rivers, and one of them, Lepidosteus, extending as far south as Guatemala, the Crossopterygii, or fringe-finned Ichthyolites, of the Old Red are closely related to the African Polypterus, which is represented by five or six species now inhabiting the Nile and the rivers of Senegal.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
You saw that, Taylor-saw her forebears become amphibians, like the now extinct Dipneusta and Ganoideii, or the still existing Neoceratodus, Polypterus and amia.
"Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930"
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