sunfish

sun·fish  (snfsh)

n. pl. sunfish or sun·fish·es

1. Any of various small North American percoid freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, having laterally compressed, often brightly colored bodies and including the crappies, black bass, bluegill, and pumpkinseed.

2. Any of several large marine fishes of the family Molidae, especially the ocean sunfish.

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[From its roundish body and bright colors.]

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sunfish

Noun

pl -fish or -fishes a large sea fish with a rounded body

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sunfish - the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae centrarchid, sunfish - small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed freshwater fish - flesh of fish from fresh water used as food crappie - small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers
	2.	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, ocean 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
	3.	sunfish - small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed centrarchid percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes Centrarchidae, family Centrarchidae - sunfish family crappie - small sunfishes of central United States rivers freshwater bream, bream - any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis Lepomis gibbosus, pumpkinseed - small brilliantly colored North American sunfish Ambloplites rupestris, rock sunfish, rock bass - game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes black bass - widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family) sunfish - the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae