Definitions for sunfish

sunfish sun·fish

Spelling: [suhn-fish]
IPA: /ˈsʌnˌfɪʃ/

Sunfish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in sunfish (fhinssu).

Definitions for sunfish

noun

  1. the ocean sunfish, Mola mola.
  2. any of various other fishes of the family Molidae.
  3. any of several small, brightly colored, spiny-rayed freshwater fishes of the genus Lepomis, of North America, having a deep, compressed body.

Origin of sunfish

First recorded in 1620-30; sun + fish

Examples for sunfish

It will be seen that the sunfish has no neck and we may say, also, no back.

I used to love to watch the sunfish leap, they are so round and glistening and awkward.

The rivers also yield pike, perch, and sunfish, as well as catfish and pickerel.

He talked about swordfish as carelessly as he used to talk about sunfish.

In half an hour they caught a beautiful string of sunfish and chubs.

I have a sunfish in the basin now, but I don't expect it will ever get so tame.

This is not true of the sunfish, who remains just about the same at all seasons.

These ponds were full of sunfish, and other fish, some of which we caught.

sunfish and perch and eels abounded in this river, but it was not famous for trout.

I saw him look then as he used to in our sunfish, bent-pin days.

Word Value for sunfish
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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