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Sunfish
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What's The Definition Of Sunfish?
[n] small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
[n] among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters [n] the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae Synonyms | Synonyms for Sunfish: centrarchid | headfish | mola | ocean sunfish Related Terms | Find terms related to Sunfish: See Also | Ambloplites rupestris | black bass | bream | centrarchid | Centrarchidae | crappie | crappie | family Centrarchidae | freshwater bream | freshwater fish | genus Mola | Lepomis gibbosus | Mola lanceolata | percoid | percoid fish | percoidean | plectognath | plectognath fish | pumpkinseed | rock bass | rock sunfish | sharptail mola | sunfish | sunfish Sunfish In Webster's Dictionary \Sun"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A very large oceanic plectognath fish ({Mola mola}, {Mola
rotunda}, or {Orthagoriscus mola}) having a broad body
and a truncated tail.
(b) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American
fresh-water fishes of the family {Centrachid[ae]}. They
have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines.
Among the common species of the Eastern United States are
{Lepomis gibbosus} (called also {bream}, {pondfish},
{pumpkin seed}, and {sunny}), the blue sunfish, or
dollardee ({L. pallidus}), and the long-eared sunfish
({L. auritus}). Several of the species are called also
{pondfish}.
(c) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
(d) The opah.
(e) The basking, or liver, shark.
(f) Any large jellyfish.
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