Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various North American freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, having laterally compressed, often brightly colored bodies and including the crappies, black bass, bluegill, and pumpkinseed.
- noun Any of several large marine fishes of the family Molidae, especially the ocean sunfish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common name of various fishes.
- noun A jellyfish, especially one of the larger kinds, a foot or so in diameter. See cut under
Cyanea . - To act like a sunfish, specifically as in the quotation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A very large oceanic plectognath fish (
Mola mola ,Mola rotunda , orOrthagoriscus mola ) having a broad body and a truncated tail. - noun Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family
Centrachidæ . They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States areLepomis gibbosus (called alsobream ,pondfish ,pumpkin seed , andsunny ), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus ), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus ). Several of the species are called alsopondfish . - noun The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
- noun The opah.
- noun The basking, or liver, shark.
- noun Any large jellyfish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with
iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body. - noun Any of various large marine fishes of the family
Molidae that have an oval compressed body.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
- noun small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
- noun the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Some big cities are using bluegills, sometimes known as sunfish or brim -- brim, wherever you live.
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Some biologists consider the fishes a superclass, and divide them into three classes: bony fishes, such as sunfish and cod; fishes with a skeleton formed of cartilage rather than bone, such as sharks; and fishes that lack jaws, such as lampreys.
fishes 2002
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When one of these "sunfish," as the fishermen call them, is lifted from the water, the clay-coloured eggs may be seen to stream from it in myriads.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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And every now and then he'd catch a different kind of sunfish - a redear, a longear, a warmouth and, on occasion, a green sunfish.
Arkansas Online stories KEITH SUTTON Contributing Writer 2010
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I found a longer bait targeted the 12inch plus smallies better and kept sunfish at bay.
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Today I went fishing for flathead catfish using sunfish as bait.
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Crunching on the nicely seasoned sunfish tails always brings back great childhood memories.
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I've caught ALL of the following on it: largemouth bass, black crappie, white crappie, bluegill, red ear sunfish, white perch, spotted gar, and a channel catfish.
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Crunching on the nicely seasoned sunfish tails always brings back great childhood memories.
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I found a longer bait targeted the 12inch plus smallies better and kept sunfish at bay.
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