Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sunfish

3 senses of sunfish

Sense 1
sunfish -- (the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae)
       => freshwater fish -- (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)

Sense 2
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)
       => plectognath, plectognath fish -- (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)

Sense 3
sunfish, centrarchid -- (small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed)
       => percoid fish, percoid, percoidean -- (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)