Meaning of SUNFISH
| Pronunciation: | | 'sun`fish
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | centrarchid, headfish, mola, ocean sunfish |
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| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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