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sun·fish

(sŭn′fĭsh′)

n. pl. sunfish or sun·fish·es

1. 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.

2. Any of several large marine fishes of the family Molidae, especially the ocean sunfish.

[From the roundish bodies and bright colors of many sunfish species.]

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sunfish

(ˈsʌnˌfɪʃ)

n, pl -fish or -fishes

1. (Animals) any large plectognath fish of the family Molidae, of temperate and tropical seas, esp Mola mola, which has a large rounded compressed body, long pointed dorsal and anal fins, and a fringelike tail fin

2. (Animals) any of various small predatory North American freshwater percoid fishes of the family Centrarchidae, typically having a compressed brightly coloured body

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sun•fish

(ˈsʌnˌfɪʃ)

n., pl. (esp. collectively) -fish, (esp. for kinds or species) -fish•es.

any freshwater fish of the North American family Centrarchidae, including crappies and black bass.

[1620–30]

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Noun	1.	sunfish - the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae centrarchid, sunfish - small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed freshwater fish - flesh of fish from fresh water used as food crappie - small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers
	2.	sunfish - 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 headfish, mola, ocean sunfish plectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines genus Mola - type genus of the Molidae Mola lanceolata, sharptail mola - caudal fin has a central projection
	3.	sunfish - small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed centrarchid percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes Centrarchidae, family Centrarchidae - sunfish family crappie - small sunfishes of central United States rivers freshwater bream, bream - any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis Lepomis gibbosus, pumpkinseed - small brilliantly colored North American sunfish Ambloplites rupestris, rock sunfish, rock bass - game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes black bass - widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family) sunfish - the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae

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sunfish

[ˈsʌnfɪʃ] N → peje-sol m

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This strategy may be parasitic (e.g., dusky shiner Notropis cummingsae and redbreast sunfish Lepomis auritus; Fletcher, 1993), beneficial to the associate (e.g., striped shiner Luxilus chrysocephalus and hornyhead chub Nocomis biguttatus; Johnston, 1994a), or mutualistic, benefiting both the host and nest associate (e.g., green sunfish Lepomis cyanellus and redfin shiner Lythrurus umbratilis; Johnston, 1994b).

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might protect me here--maybe it was I who hauled the sunfish out,

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