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bowfin
[ boh-fin ]
noun
- a carnivorous ganoid fish, Amia calva, found in sluggish fresh waters of eastern North America.
bowfin
/ ˈbəʊˌfɪn /
noun
- a primitive North American freshwater bony fish, Amia calva , with an elongated body and a very long dorsal fin: family Amiidae
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Such fishes as the garpike and the bowfin have lung-like air-bladders and gulp air from the surface of the water.
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In the bowfin (Amia calva), trematodes existed in enormous numbers.
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Near relatives of the bowfin flourished in the Mesozoic, among them some with a forked tail, and some with a very long one.
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