Found 2 items, similar to Sunfish.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sunfish
sunfish
n 1: the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes
of the family Centrarchidae
2: 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 [syn:
ocean sunfish,
mola,
headfish]
3: small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America
usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic
luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed [syn:
centrarchid]
[also:
sunfishes (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sunfish
Sunfish
\Sun"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A very large oceanic plectognath fish (
Mola mola,
Mola rotunda
, or
Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body
and a truncated tail.
(b) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American
fresh-water fishes of the family
Centrachid[ae]. They
have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines.
Among the common species of the Eastern United States are
Lepomis gibbosus (called also
bream,
pondfish,
pumpkin seed, and
sunny), the blue sunfish, or
dollardee (
L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish
(
L. auritus). Several of the species are called also
pondfish.
(c) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
(d) The opah.
(e) The basking, or liver, shark.
(f) Any large jellyfish.
[1913 Webster]