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ocean sunfish
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ocean sunfish
n.
A marine fish (Mola mola) with a large globular body, found in warm and temperate seas. Also called mola2.
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Noun1.ocean sunfish - among the largest bony fishocean sunfish - 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
headfish, mola, sunfish
plectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
genus Mola - type genus of the Molidae
Mola lanceolata, sharptail mola - caudal fin has a central projection
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