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

  • Ichthyologists think it may belong to a family of specialized and degenerate percoids (perch, sunfish).
  • One youngster brought a tiddler (British for sunfish) in a jar.
  • He rustled the 1,090 fish (sunfish, bass, walleyed pike, crappies) from the state conservation department.
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  • Thomas Kean in Madison Eagle
    From saving Sunfish Pond, to the Green Acres program, to wetlands protection, to the creation of the DEP -- she worked with me on many of those bills,Kean recalled.

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