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Meanings of centrarchid in English

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

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        Examples for "sunfish"
        Examples for "sunfish"
        1
        A sunfish followed, then a sucker, and then two more perch.
        Four Boy Hunters; Or, The Outing of the Gun Club
        2
        He had fished here as a boy, catching an occasional sunfish.
        The Robot Who Looked Like Me
        3
        Few creatures in Irish waters are stranger to human eyes than the sunfish.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Consider the bluegill sunfish, a freshwater species from North America.
        Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
        5
        I feel like the boy who went fishing for sunfish and caught a whale.
        Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls