sunfish
IPA: sˈʌnfɪʃ
noun
- Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.
- Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.
verb
- (intransitive) Of an animal such as a bull or a horse: to twist the body into a crescent shape and roll back and forth.
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Examples of "sunfish" in Sentences
- Ocean sunfish is such an article.
- The sunfish lacks a swim bladder.
- Sunfish Pond has an elevation of .
- The Sunfish is an oddity in the sailing world.
- Among these were a white catfish and a sunfish.
- Sunfish are pelagic and swim at depths of up to.
- Sunfish are pelagic and swim at depths of up to .
- In human terms, it is actually a Sunfish, not a bass...
- Today I went fishing for flathead catfish using sunfish as bait.
- The lake provides a habitat for perch, pickerel, sunfish, catfish, and trout.
- I found a longer bait targeted the 12inch plus smallies better and kept sunfish at bay.
- Crunching on the nicely seasoned sunfish tails always brings back great childhood memories.
- Some big cities are using bluegills, sometimes known as sunfish or brim -- brim, wherever you live.
- Given this fact, scientists now postulate that basking may be a way for sunfish to thermally recharge themselves.
- And every now and then he'd catch a different kind of sunfish - a redear, a longear, a warmouth and, on occasion, a green sunfish.
- When one of these "sunfish," as the fishermen call them, is lifted from the water, the clay-coloured eggs may be seen to stream from it in myriads.
- I've caught ALL of the following on it: largemouth bass, black crappie, white crappie, bluegill, red ear sunfish, white perch, spotted gar, and a channel catfish.
- Some biologists consider the fishes a superclass, and divide them into three classes: bony fishes, such as sunfish and cod; fishes with a skeleton formed of cartilage rather than bone, such as sharks; and fishes that lack jaws, such as lampreys.
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