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sunfish   (TTS Sound)

The noun sunfish has 3 senses

• sunfish -- (the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae)


• 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)


• sunfish, centrarchid -- (small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed)