Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sunfish , 1 .
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Examples
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The bait you are using is what I would recommend, sun-perch or bream are the go to bait for big flatties.
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The bait you are using is what I would recommend, sun-perch or bream are the go to bait for big flatties.
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Joe had not had time to get impatient before they were back again with some handsome bass, a couple of sun-perch and a small catfish — provisions enough for quite a family.
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He had caught exactly two fish, both of them little sun-perch, and neither big enough to keep.
Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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He had caught exactly two fish, both of them little sun-perch, and neither big enough to keep.
Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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The minnow and sun-perch are the pages of the tourney on the cloth of gold.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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Six feet two he was, red-headed and pink-gilled as a sun-perch.
Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886
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Joe had not had time to get impatient before they were back again with some handsome bass, a couple of sun-perch and a small catfish -- provisions enough for quite a family.
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Joe had not had time to get impatient before they were back again with some handsome bass, a couple of sun-perch and a small catfish -- provisions enough for quite a family.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872
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