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sunfish
A	noun
	1	sunfish, centrarchid
				small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna ╚chordate ╚vertebrate; craniate ╚aquatic vertebrate ╚fish ╚bony fish ╚teleost fish; teleost; teleostan ╚spiny-finned fish; acanthopterygian ╚percoid fish; percoid; percoidean ╚sunfish, centrarchid ╚black bass ╚rock bass; rock sunfish; Ambloplites rupestris ╚pumpkinseed; Lepomis gibbosus ╚freshwater bream; bream ╚crappie
	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
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna ╚chordate ╚vertebrate; craniate ╚aquatic vertebrate ╚fish ╚bony fish ╚teleost fish; teleost; teleostan ╚spiny-finned fish; acanthopterygian ╚plectognath; plectognath fish ╚ocean sunfish, sunfish, mola, headfish ╚sharptail mola; Mola lanceolata
	3	sunfish
				the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
		Category Tree: entity ╚substance; matter ╚solid ╚food ╚seafood ╚freshwater fish ╚sunfish ╚crappie

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