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noun

Sunfish n. (Zool.)

(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 Centrachidae. 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 (Lepomis pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (Lepomis 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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Etymology of 'Sunfish'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sunfish" Quotes from Famous Books

... rather foiled by Luke's unexpectedly decided views about Dutchmen, "perhaps you would like 'Animated Nature' better; that's not Dutchmen, you know, but elephants and kangaroos, and the civet-cat, and the sunfish, and a bird sitting on its tail,—I forget its name. There are countries full of those creatures, instead of horses and cows, you know. Shouldn't you like to know ...

— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot

... line out and baited up and began to troll at the end of the boat. In a few minutes he got a bite and pulled up a fair-sized perch. A sunfish followed, then a sucker, and then ...

— Four Boy Hunters • Captain Ralph Bonehill

Words linked to "Sunfish" : headfish, Mola lanceolata, percoidean, ocean sunfish, percoid, spotted sunfish, crappie, freshwater fish, sharptail mola, bream, freshwater bream, plectognath fish, black bass, plectognath, percoid fish, Lepomis gibbosus, rock sunfish, rock bass, genus Mola, pumpkinseed