sunfish

IPA: sˈʌnfɪʃ

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.

(intransitive) Of an animal such as a bull or a horse: to twist the body into a crescent shape and roll back and forth.

Examples of "sunfish" in Sentences

Today I went fishing for flathead catfish using sunfish as bait.
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.
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.