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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 sun·fish /-ˌfɪʃ/
 翻車魚,淡水產小魚

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sun·fish n. 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 sunfish
      n 1: the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes
           of the family Centrarchidae
      2: 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 [syn: ocean sunfish, mola, headfish]
      3: small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America
         usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic
         luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed [syn:
          centrarchid]
      [also: sunfishes (pl)]