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Sunfish

Definition: Sunfish

Sunfish

Noun

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

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.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sunfish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Sunfish

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Several kinds of things are named "sunfish":

A number of different fish species are named "sunfish" in various countries: (leftovers)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sunfish."

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Synonyms: Sunfish

Synonyms: centrarchid (n), headfish (n), mola (n), ocean sunfish (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sunfish

English words defined with "sunfish": bluegill ♦ Centrarchidae ♦ Dollardee ♦ family Centrarchidae ♦ Lepomis gibbosus, Lepomis macrochirus ♦ Molebut ♦ Pondfish, pumpkinseed ♦ Warmouth. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sunfish

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sunfish

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Sunfish

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The record sunfish, Santa Catalina Island, too heavy to weigh; estimated at 2,500 pounds. In: "Sport Fishing in California and Florida," by Charles F. Holder. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I, p. 207, Plate V. Credit: Fisheries.

Plate 35. The Sunfish. Mola rotunda, Cuvier. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Plate 153. The Pumpkin-Seed or Sunfish. Lepomis gibbosus (L.), McKay. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Plate 157. The Broad-Eared Sunfish. Lepomis obscurus, Ag. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Plate 158. The Rainbow Sunfish. Centrarchus macropterus (Lac.), Jordan. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Plate 161. The Black-Banded Sunfish. Mesagonistius chaetodon (Baird), Gill. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Ocean sunfish floats serenely in midwater. Mola mola. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

An ocean sunfish or mola mola. Credit: Sanctuaries.

A sunfish sailboat on the lagoon. Credit: Small World.

Exhibits in curio shop. Sunfish on left. Key West, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Usage Frequency: Sunfish

"Sunfish" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Sunfish" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%6143,867
Noun (proper)33.33%3202,518
                    Total100.00%9N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Sunfish


1. Sunfish, KY
Zip Code(s): 42284
Country: USA

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Expressions: Sunfish

Expressions using "sunfish": blue sunfish ♦ green sunfish ♦ ocean sunfish ♦ rock sunfish ♦ spotted sunfish ♦ Sunfish Lake. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sunfish

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sunfish

486

bluegill sunfish

7

sunfish sail boat

239

sunfish used

7

ocean sunfish

36

fishing sunfish

6

sunfish sail

27

pond sunfish

6

sunfish boat

25

class home page sunfish

6

green sunfish

18

hybrid sunfish

6

sunfish part

17

board message sunfish

6

sunfish picture

16

redbreast sunfish

6

alcort sunfish

15

sunfish triathlon

5

amf sunfish

15

longear sunfish

5

redear sunfish

14

recipe sunfish

5

boat sail sale sunfish

14

lake sunfish

5

sunfish sail boat part

13

identification sunfish

4

sale sunfish

11

rigging sunfish

4

sunfish sailing

11

amf boat sail sunfish

4

boat sail sunfish used

11

species sunfish

4

sunfish trailer

9

alcort boat sail sunfish

4

pumpkinseed sunfish

9

photo sunfish

4

sunfish vanguard

8

uss sunfish

4

ear red sunfish

7

sail sunfish used

3
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Modern Translation: Sunfish

Language Translations for "sunfish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

риба луна. (various references)

   

Danish

  

spidshalet klumpfisk (sharp-tail sunfish), lang klumpfisk (slender sunfish), klumpfisk (ocean sunfish), almindelig klumpfisk (ocean sunfish). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spitsstaartmaanvis (sharp-tail sunfish), maanvis (ocean sunfish), kleine maanvis (slender sunfish). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pikkumöhkäkala (slender sunfish), möhkäkala-laji (sharp-tail sunfish), möhkäkala (ocean sunfish). (various references)

   

French

  

poisson-lune voyageur (slender sunfish), poisson-lune lancéolé (sharp-tail sunfish), poisson lune (ocean sunfish), mole voyageur (slender sunfish), mole lancéolé (sharp-tail sunfish), mole commun (ocean sunfish), môle voyageur (slender sunfish), môle lancéolé (sharp-tail sunfish), môle commun (ocean sunfish), \MOX (ocean sunfish). (various references)

   

German

  

Stutz-Mondfisch (slender sunfish), Spitzschwanz-Mondfisch (sharp-tail sunfish), Schwimmender Kopf (slender sunfish), Mondfisch (ocean sunfish), Langer Mondfisch (slender sunfish), Klumpfisch (ocean sunfish). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

είδοσ πέρκησ, ορθαγορίσκοσ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

pesce luna troncato (slender sunfish), pesce luna (moonfish). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

翻車魚 (ocean sunfish). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ま"ぼう (ocean sunfish). (various references)

   

Manx

  

eeast greiney. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unfishsay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

peixe-lua rabudo (sharp-tail sunfish), peixe-lua comprido (slender sunfish), peixe-lua (moon-eyed). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

луна-рыба. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pez luna lanceolado (sharp-tail sunfish), pez luna alargado (slender sunfish), pez luna (ocean sunfish), atalo (ocean sunfish). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

klumpfisk (ocean sunfish). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ปลาน้ำจื"ชนิ"หนึ่ง (gar, roach, sucker). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

güneş balığı, ay balığı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sunfish

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Masturus lanceolatus, Mola mola, mole commun, Octhagoriscus mola, Ranzania laevis, Ranzania truncata, VE Mola mola, VE poisson lune. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sunfish

Derivations

Words beginning with "sunfish": sunfishes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sunfish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cuntish, sunis, sunish, tundish, unfish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sunfish"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sunfish" (pronounced su"nfi'sh)
3-f i' shAngelfish, catfish, crawfish, cuttlefish, dealfish, dogfish, flatfish, goldfish, goosefish, hagfish, jellyfish, jewfish, lungfish, needlefish, pipefish, redfish, sailfish, selfish, shellfish, starfish, swordfish, whitefish.

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Anagrams: Sunfish

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-h-i-n-s-s-u"

-2 letters: nisus, shins, shuns, sinhs, sinus, sushi.

-3 letters: fins, fish, funs, fuss, hins, hisn, hiss, huns, shin, shun, sinh, sins, suns.

-4 letters: fin, fun, hin, his, hun, ifs, ins, nus, sin, sis, sun, uns.

-5 letters: hi, if, in, is, nu, sh, si, uh, un, us.

 Words containing the letters "f-h-i-n-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: fuchsins, unshifts.

 

+2 letters: fuchsines, furnishes, huffiness, sunfishes, unselfish.

 

+3 letters: disfurnish, furnishers, lungfishes, numbfishes.

 

+4 letters: furnishings, huffinesses, refurnishes, surgeonfish, trunkfishes, unselfishly, wishfulness.

 

+5 letters: disfurnished, disfurnishes, faithfulness, groundfishes, mirthfulness, muttonfishes, rightfulness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Cities 		9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient 		13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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