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SUNFISH
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Irregular inflected form: sunfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
Synonyms:
centrarchid; sunfish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sunfish" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Meronyms (parts of "sunfish"):
sunfish (the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sunfish"):
crappie (small sunfishes of central United States rivers)
bream; freshwater 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 bass; rock sunfish (game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes)
black bass (widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family))
Holonyms ("sunfish" is a member of...):
Centrarchidae; family Centrarchidae (sunfish family)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
headfish; mola; ocean sunfish; sunfish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("sunfish" is a kind of...):
plectognath; plectognath fish (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sunfish"):
Mola lanceolata; sharptail mola (caudal fin has a central projection)
Holonyms ("sunfish" is a member of...):
genus Mola (type genus of the Molidae)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("sunfish" is a kind of...):
freshwater fish (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sunfish"):
crappie (small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers)
Holonyms ("sunfish" is a part of...):
centrarchid; sunfish (small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed)
