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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