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sunfish

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1. sunfish - Noun

2. sunfish - Verb

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The opah.

The basking, or liver, shark.

A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.

The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.

Any large jellyfish.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Amazing and inexpensive - loved the sunfish ceviche, tuna poke, shooters, eggplant and insanely delicious oyster po' boy. Source: Internet

The heaviest species of bony fish, the oceanic sunfish (Mola mola), has been found in great white shark stomachs. Source: Internet

Try prepared dip baits, chicken livers, minnows or chubs, green sunfish, bluegill, crawdads, frogs, night crawlers or dead, but fresh, goldeye or gizzard shad. Source: Internet

At first, it’s reasonable to think that this video’s protagonist, a man from Malden, is laying the Massachusetts accent on a little thick as he reacts to seeing a sunfish in the water. Source: Internet

However, some are much smaller, with the black-banded sunfish at just convert in length, while the largemouth bass is reported to reach almost convert in extreme cases. Source: Internet

Other species known as bass For Micropterus salmoides — largemouth bass with assorted sunfish. Source: Internet

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