Definitions of sunfish
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small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
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synonyms:
centrarchid
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crappie
small sunfishes of central United States rivers
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bream, freshwater bream
any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis
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Lepomis gibbosus, pumpkinseed
small brilliantly colored North American sunfish
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Ambloplites rupestris, rock bass, rock sunfish
game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
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black bass
widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family)
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Abramis brama, European bream
European freshwater fish having a flattened body and silvery scales; of little value as food
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Pomoxis nigromaculatus, black crappie
a crappie that is black
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Pomoxis annularis, white crappie
a crappie that is white
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Lepomis macrochirus, bluegill
important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States
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Lepomis punctatus, spotted sunfish, stumpknocker
inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish
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Kentucky black bass, Micropterus pseudoplites, spotted black bass
a variety of black bass
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Micropterus dolomieu, smallmouth, smallmouth bass, smallmouth black bass, smallmouthed bass, smallmouthed black bass
a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye
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Micropterus salmoides, largemouth, largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass
a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye
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percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
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crappie
small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers
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freshwater fish
flesh of fish from fresh water used as food
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crappie
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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 in warm waters
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synonyms:
headfish, mola, ocean sunfish
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Mola lanceolata, sharptail mola
caudal fin has a central projection
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plectognath, plectognath fish
tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
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Mola lanceolata, sharptail mola
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