sunfish
Americannoun
plural
sunfish,plural
sunfishes-
the ocean sunfish, Mola mola.
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any of various other fishes of the family Molidae.
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any of several small, brightly colored, spiny-rayed freshwater fishes of the genus Lepomis, of North America, having a deep, compressed body.
noun
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any large plectognath fish of the family Molidae, of temperate and tropical seas, esp Mola mola, which has a large rounded compressed body, long pointed dorsal and anal fins, and a fringelike tail fin
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any of various small predatory North American freshwater percoid fishes of the family Centrarchidae, typically having a compressed brightly coloured body
Etymology
Origin of sunfish
Example Sentences
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Sunfish, found in every ocean in the world, are a delicacy in Japan.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025
The onlookers were aboard the Sunfish, a boat with Channel Islands Expeditions, when a pair of gray whales approached the vessel Monday morning.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2023
En Denver, C tocaba con una banda llamada Sunfish.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022
She and her six siblings spent summers at Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire, piloting motorboats and a Sunfish.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2021
And so I walked five thoroughly agreeable miles up Kittatinny to Sunfish Pond, a very comely forty-one-acre pond surrounded by woods.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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