ocean sunfish

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noun

a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.

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Also called headfish.

Origin of ocean sunfish

First recorded in 1620–30

Words nearby ocean sunfish

oceanologic, oceanology, ocean pout, Oceanside, Ocean Springs, ocean sunfish, Oceanus, Oceanus Procellarum, ocellar, ocellated, ocellated turkey

How to use ocean sunfish in a sentence

These brave souls took an icy dip in the ocean to ring in 2015 and raise money for charity.
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Miles of Soviet era housing projects sat along on the ocean.
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Fidel jumped out and hopped into the ocean without getting wet.
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Opposite is a red-brick monastery leaning like an ocean liner in the snow.
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The real story of who killed bin Laden may have gone to the bottom of the ocean or been plowed back into the dirt in Abbottabad.
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They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.
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His soul was tossed on the billows of a tempestuous ocean, in the midst of which he saw his father perishing.
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Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.
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But this port (to obviate misunderstanding) is not on the Ocean lying eastward, but on that gulf which I have called French bay.
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The common law is therefore always slowly changing like the ocean and is never at rest.
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