sunfish - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed

Synonyms

• centrarchid
• sunfish

More generic

• percoid
• percoid fish
• percoidean

More specific

• Ambloplites rupestris
• Lepomis gibbosus
• black bass
• bream
• crappie
• freshwater bream
• pumpkinseed
• rock bass
• rock sunfish

Related

• sunfish

Related

• Centrarchidae
• family Centrarchidae

Noun

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

Synonyms

• headfish
• mola
• ocean sunfish
• sunfish

More generic

• plectognath
• plectognath fish

More specific

• Mola lanceolata
• sharptail mola

Related

• genus Mola

Noun

the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae

Synonyms

• sunfish

More generic

• freshwater fish

More specific

• crappie

Related

• centrarchid
• sunfish

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