HyperDic: ocean_sunfish

English > 1 sense of the expression ocean sunfish:
NOUNanimalocean sunfish, sunfish, mola, headfishamong the largest bony fish
English > ocean sunfish: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningAmong 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.
Synonymssunfish, mola, headfish
Member ofgenus Molatype genus of the Molidae
Narrowersharptail mola, Mola lanceolatacaudal fin has a central projection
Broaderplectognath, plectognath fishTropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
Spanishmola, pez luna
Catalanbot, Mola mola, mola

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