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sunfish

/ˈsʌnˌfɪʃ/

sunfish noun: any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.

sunfish: any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours...
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Noun

sunfish (plural sunfish or sunfishes)

  1. Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.
  2. Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.

Verb

sunfish (third-person singular simple present sunfishes, present participle sunfishing, simple past and past participle sunfished)

  1. (intransitive) Of an animal such as a bull or a horse: to twist the body into a crescent shape and roll back and forth.

sunfish meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

sunfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

sunfish in Vietnamese

fish of the family Molidae
cá mặt trăng

Forms of sunfish

Noun
pluralsunfish
pluralsunfishes
Verb
third-person singular presentsunfishes
present participlesunfishing
past participlesunfished
pastsunfished

Plural of sunfish: sunfish or sunfishes

Origin of sunfish

* From sun + fish. * (type of fish): Perhaps from the rounded body shape.

Words formed from sunfish

Questions about sunfish

What does sunfish mean?
Sunfish means any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.
What is sunfish in Tamil?
Sunfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Sunfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sunfish?
Sunfish can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce sunfish?
Sunfish is pronounced /ˈsʌnˌfɪʃ/.
What is the plural of sunfish?
The plural of sunfish is sunfish.

Words near sunfish in the dictionary

  1. sunfastness
  2. sunfever
  3. sunfevers
  4. Sunfield
  5. sunfilled
  6. sunfish
  7. sunfished
  8. sunfisher
  9. sunfishers
  10. sunfishes
  11. sunfishing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sunfish (page history and authors); sunfish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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