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Noun sunfish has 3 senses
- sunfish - the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
--1 is a kind of freshwater fish
--1 is a part of sunfish, centrarchid
--1 has particulars: crappie
- ocean sunfish, sunfish, mola, headfish - 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
--2 is a kind of plectognath, plectognath fish
--2 is a member of genus Mola
--2 has particulars: sharptail mola, Mola lanceolata
- sunfish, centrarchid - small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
--3 is a kind of percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
--3 is a member of Centrarchidae, family Centrarchidae
--3 has parts: sunfish
--3 has particulars:
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