amia I. \ˈāmēə, ˈam-\noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, a tunny : a genus of ganoid fishes (order Cycloganoidei) including only the bowfin and being the type of a small otherwise extinct family II. Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, a tunny synonym of apogon — a prior use that has been ruled invalid by the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature