sunfish
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1. small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed (noun.animal)
| hyponym | : | crappie, |
| definition | : | small sunfishes of central United States rivers (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bream, freshwater bream, |
| definition | : | any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | black bass, |
| definition | : | widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family) (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | sunfish, |
| definition | : | the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae (noun.food) |
2. 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 (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | plectognath, plectognath fish, |
| definition | : | tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus mola, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Molidae (noun.animal) |
3. the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | freshwater fish, |
| definition | : | flesh of fish from fresh water used as food (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | crappie, |
| definition | : | small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers (noun.food) |
| part meronym | : | centrarchid, sunfish, |
| definition | : | small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed (noun.animal) |
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