Definitions For Sunfish

noun

• Small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
• 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
• The lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
• A large fish with a round body that lives in the sea