See Also: Amia(medicine)

orthodoxy (oh) and Amia (medicine)


orthodoxy (oh)



[U and C] an idea or set of ideas that is accepted by most people to be correct and right
::He challenged the political orthodoxy of his time.
::These ideas have now become part of educational orthodoxy.

Amia (medicine)


amia
<zoology> 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.

Origin: L, fr. Gr. A kind of tunny.

Source: Websters Dictionary