Definitions for bowfin

bowfin bow·fin

Spelling: [boh-fin]
IPA: /ˈboʊˌfɪn/

Bowfin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in bowfin (bfinow).

Definitions for bowfin

noun

  1. a carnivorous ganoid fish, Amia calva, found in sluggish fresh waters of eastern North America.

Origin of bowfin

An Americanism dating back to 1835-45; bow2 + fin1

Examples for bowfin

Such fishes as the garpike and the bowfin have lung-like air-bladders and gulp air from the surface of the water.

Near relatives of the bowfin flourished in the Mesozoic, among them some with a forked tail, and some with a very long one.

In the bowfin (Amia calva), trematodes existed in enormous numbers.

Word Value for bowfin
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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