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Webster 1913 Edition

Sunfish

Sun′fishˊ

,
Noun.
(Zool.)
(a)
A very large oceanic plectognath fish (
Mola mola
,
Mola rotunda
, or
Orthagoriscus mola
) having a broad body and a truncated tail.
(b)
Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family
Centrachidae
. 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 (
Lepomis pallidus
), and the long-eared sunfish (
Lepomis auritus
). Several of the species are called also
pondfish
.
(c)
The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
(d)
The opah.
(e)
The basking, or liver, shark.
(f)
Any large jellyfish.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sunfish

SUN'FISH

,
Noun.
[sun and fish.] A name of the diodon, a genus of fishes of a very singular form, appearing like the fore part of the body of a very deep fish amputated in the middle.
The sunfish is the Tetraodon mola of Linne.
1.
The basking shark.

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