Definitions for sunfish



Overview of noun sunfish

The noun sunfish has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
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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