Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
- n. Any of several large marine fishes of the family Molidae, especially the ocean sunfish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A common name of various fishes. Any fish of the genus Mola, Orthagoriscus, or Cephalus, notable when adult for their singularly rounded figure and great size. See
Molidæ , and cut underMola . - n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.
- n. Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.
- n. 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 are Lepomis 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 also pondfish. - n. The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
- n. The opah.
- n. The basking, or liver, shark.
- n. Any large jellyfish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
- n. small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed.
- n. the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
Etymologies
- sun + fish (Wiktionary)
- From its roundish body and bright colors. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Some big cities are using bluegills, sometimes known as sunfish or brim -- brim, wherever you live.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Crunching on the nicely seasoned sunfish tails always brings back great childhood memories.”
“I found a longer bait targeted the 12inch plus smallies better and kept sunfish at bay.”
“Today I went fishing for flathead catfish using sunfish as bait.”
“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.”
“Who doesn't love fishing for bass? they're not native west of the Rockies, where I live, and neither are catfish, sunfish, crappies, perch, and walleyes, not to mention that brown trout aren't native to the continent.”
“WHY BASS LIKE IT: Hydrilla, lily pads, hyacinths, and other greenery hold forage such as crawfish and sunfish and provide cover, shade, and higher oxygen.”
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