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