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n. A primitive bony freshwater fish (Amia calva) of central and eastern North America, with a long spineless dorsal fin. Also called dogfish, mudfish.

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

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

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

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

"He could find that the mudfish is called bowfin in textbooks, that in south Arkansas and north Louisiana it is written grindle or grinnel but always pronounced [` grinl]; that in south Louisiana it is called green cypress trout, grinnel, and choupique, which in English is pronounced [š]; that in northwest Florida the word grindle is sometimes pronounced"

ganoid fish    ganoid   

johnny grindle    dogfish   

dogfish    mudfish    Johnny Grindle