| NOUN | food | sunfish | the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae |
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| animal | sunfish, ocean sunfish, mola, headfish | among the largest bony fish | |
| animal | sunfish, centrarchid | small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster |
| Sounds | sah'nfih.sh | |
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| Rhymes | abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh... | |
| Meaning | The lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae. | |
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| Part of | sunfish, centrarchid | small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster |
| Narrower | crappie | small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers |
| Broader | freshwater fish | flesh of fish from fresh water used as food |
| 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 / worldwide in warm waters. | |
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| Synonyms | ocean sunfish, mola, headfish | |
| Member of | genus Mola | type genus of the Molidae |
| Narrower | sharptail mola, Mola lanceolata | caudal fin has a central projection |
| Broader | plectognath, plectognath fish | Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines |
| Spanish | mola, pez luna | |
| Catalan | bot, Mola mola, mola | |
| Meaning | small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies / crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed. | |
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| Synonym | centrarchid | |
| Member of | Centrarchidae, family Centrarchidae | sunfish family |
| Parts | sunfish | The lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae |
| Narrower | black bass | widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family) |
| crappie | small sunfishes of central United States rivers | |
| freshwater bream, bream | Any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales | |
| pumpkinseed, Lepomis gibbosus | small brilliantly colored North American sunfish | |
| rock bass, rock sunfish, Ambloplites rupestris | game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes | |
| Broader | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
| Spanish | centrarchid | |
| Catalan | centrarchid | |
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