Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sunfish"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Moonfish \Moon"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) An American marine fish ({Vomer setipennis}); -- called
also {bluntnosed shiner}, {horsefish}, and {sunfish}.
(b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish ({Selene vomer}); --
called also {lookdown}, and {silver moonfish}.
(c) The mola. See {Sunfish}, 1.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sunfish \Sun"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A very large oceanic plectognath fish ({Mola mola}, {Mola
rotunda}, or {Orthagoriscus mola}) having a broad body
and a truncated tail.
(b) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American
fresh-water fishes of the family {Centrachid[ae]}. They
have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines.
Among the common species of the Eastern United States are
{Lepomis gibbosus} (called also {bream}, {pondfish},
{pumpkin seed}, and {sunny}), the blue sunfish, or
dollardee ({L. pallidus}), and the long-eared sunfish
({L. auritus}). Several of the species are called also
{pondfish}.
(c) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
(d) The opah.
(e) The basking, or liver, shark.
(f) Any large jellyfish.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pondfish \Pond"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water fishes
belonging to the family {Centrarchid[ae]}; -- called also
{pond perch}, and {sunfish}.
Note: The common pondfish of New England ({Lepomis gibbosus})
is called also {bream}, {pumpkin seed}, and {sunny}.
See {Sunfish}. The long-eared pondfish ({Lepomis
auritus}) of the Eastern United States is distinguished
by its very long opercular flap.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sunfish
n 1: the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes
of the family Centrarchidae
2: 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 [syn: {ocean sunfish}, {mola}, {headfish}]
3: small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America
usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic
luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed [syn:
{centrarchid}]
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