Definitions for ocean sunfish

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

o′cean sun′fish(n.)

  1. a large sluggish mola

    Mola mola.

    Category: Ichthyology

Origin of ocean sunfish:

1620–30

Princeton's WordNet

  1. ocean sunfish, sunfish, mola, headfish(noun)

    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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