Etymology
- From sun + fish.
- (type of fish): Perhaps from the rounded body shape.
Noun
sunfish (plural sunfish or sunfishes)
- Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.
- Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.
Translations
fish of the family Centrarchidae
- Catalan: centràrquid m
- Chinese:
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- Czech: okounek m
- Finnish: aurinkoahven
- French: please add this translation if you can
- German: Sonnenbarsch m
- Polish: bassek (pl) m, okończyk m
- Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: со́лнечный о́кунь m (sólnečnyj ókunʹ), со́лнечная ры́ба f (sólnečnaja rýba)
- Spanish: centrárquido m
- Unami: pàkchexwès
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fish of the family Molidae
- Asturian: rueda (ast)
- Basque: atalo
- Bulgarian: риба луна f (riba luna)
- Catalan: bot (ca), peix lluna (ca), mola (ca)
- Chinese: 翻車魚 / 翻车鱼 (zh) (fānchēyú), 曼波魚 / 曼波鱼
- Czech: měsíčník (cs) m
- Danish: klumpfisk
- Dutch: klompvis, maanvis (nl)
- Estonian: kuukala (et)
- Finnish: möhkäkala (fi)
- French: môle (fr) f, poisson-lune (fr) m, molidé
- Galician: peixe lúa (gl) m
- German: Mondfisch (de) m
- Hebrew: דג השמש
- Hungarian: holdhal (hu)
- Icelandic: tunglfiskur
- Italian: pesce luna m, ortagorisco (it)
- Japanese: 翻車魚 (ja), マンボウ (ja) (manbō)
- Korean: 개복치 (ko) (gaebokchi)
- Latvian: mēnesszivs
- Ligurian: mêua f
- Lithuanian: paprastoji mėnulžuvė, mėnulžuvė
- Maori: rātāhuihui
- Norman: solé m (Jersey)
- Norwegian: månefisk, klumpfisk
- Polish: samogłów (pl)
- Portuguese: peixe-lua m
- Russian: рыба-луна (ryba-luna)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: bucanj (sh)
- Spanish: pez luna (es) m
- Swedish: klumpfisk (sv), solfisk
- Turkish: ay balığı (tr)
- Ukrainian: риба-місяць (ryba-misjacʹ)
- Vietnamese: cá mặt trăng
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Verb
sunfish (third-person singular simple present sunfishes, present participle sunfishing, simple past and past participle sunfished)
- (intransitive) Of an animal such as a bull or a horse: to twist the body into a crescent shape and roll back and forth.