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n. Any of various small North American percoid freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, having laterally compressed, often brightly colored bodies and including the crappies, black bass, bluegill, and pumpkinseed.

n. Any of several large marine fishes of the family Molidae, especially the ocean sunfish.

n. Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.

n. Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.

n. A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

n. Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidæ. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.

n. The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.

n. The opah.

n. The basking, or liver, shark.

n. Any large jellyfish.

n. A common name of various fishes.

n. A jellyfish, especially one of the larger kinds, a foot or so in diameter. See cut under Cyanea.

To act like a sunfish, specifically as in the quotation.

n. 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

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

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

"Some big cities are using bluegills, sometimes known as sunfish or brim -- brim, wherever you live."

pygmy sunfish    scarlet sunfish    common sunfish    mckay's sunfish    red-spotted sunfish    long-eared sunfish    blue sunfish    round sunfish    blue-spotted sunfish    green sunfish   

sunfishes    bream    pondfish    pumpkin seed    sunny   

pondfish   

crappie    tench    barbel    shark-like    three-pound    salmon trout    skybox    dogfish    pickerel    andain