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Meanings of sunfish in английском

португальский
peixe lua
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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.

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        peixe lua

        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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              Usage of sunfish in английском
              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
              6
              There were three sunfish, two perch, and the wriggly eel.
              Seven O'Clock Stories
              7
              Shame upon you, sunfish; I am come for your betters.'
              Fort Amity
              8
              A massive sunfish found in New Zealand waters has been defined as a new species.
              Radio NZ
              9
              Ms Carson said sunfish spit when they are antagonised.
              News.com.au
              10
              Unlike the humongous sunfish, the salmon are too small to migrate to more amenable waters.
              Wired
              11
              It was a sunfish or "sunny" as they sometimes called it.
              Seven O'Clock Stories
              12
              Nate's Pond contained perch and sunfish but no trout.
              Wake-Robin
              13
              As Bob watched, he jerked forth diminutive flat sunfish.
              The Rules of the Game
              14
              After patiently angling in the matrimonial pool, one draws a sunfish and the other a minnow.
              The Jericho Road
              15
              So the sunfish let go, and again Manabozho-
              Fort Amity
              16
              Others, like the Florida bonneted bat or Spring pygmy sunfish, might be considered ugly, even forgettable.
              Wired
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              Translations for sunfish
              португальский
              peixe luapeixe-lua
              Sunfish through the time
              Sunfish across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common