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Sunfish   /sˈənfˌɪʃ/   Listen
Sunfish

noun
1.
The lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae.
2.
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.  Synonyms: headfish, mola, ocean sunfish.
3.
Small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed.  Synonym: centrarchid.



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"Sunfish" Quotes from Famous Books



... buckled now. He could no longer sunfish. He could not even buck straight with the bone-breaking energy. He was nearly done, with a tell-tale wheeze in his lungs, with blood pressure making his eyes start well-nigh from his head, and a bloody froth choking him. Red Perris also was in the last stage of exhaustion—one true pitch would ...
— Alcatraz • Max Brand
... and his blankets he packed on Sunfish, a deceptively raw-boned young buckskin with much white showing in his eyes—an ornery looking brute if ever there was one. Bud's guitar and a mandolin in their cases he tied securely on top of the pack. Smoky, the second horse, a deep-chested ...
— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower


Words linked to "Sunfish" :   black bass, sharptail mola, percoidean, Ambloplites rupestris, freshwater fish, plectognath, rock bass, genus Mola, Mola lanceolata, percoid, percoid fish, family Centrarchidae, Lepomis gibbosus, freshwater bream, Centrarchidae, bream, crappie, plectognath fish, pumpkinseed


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