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The Sunfish sailboat is a personal size, beach launched sailing dinghy utilizing a pontoon type hull carrying a lateen sail mounted to an un- stayed mast . Sunfish was developed by Alcort, Inc. and first appeared around 1952 as the "next generation" improvement ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body. 2 Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For a sunfish or a supermarket, the best game to play depends on what everybody else is up to. ▪ Schools of sunfish still loiter there, and Stuart hooks one of their members and stiff-poles it right in. ▪ Starting with sunfish ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from sun (n.) + fish (n.). Used of various species, with reference to round shape or brilliant appearance. Short form sunny is attested from 1835.
Usage examples of sunfish.
I catch three pumpkinseed sunfish and a catfish while Bando gathers tender dandelion leaves, chicory greens, and wild carrots for salad.
And Sahwah the Sunfish, the lover of maiden bravery, the envier of heroines, was the greatest of them all, and knew it not.
Sunfish and water-ski renters who plied the small stretches of beach between hotels.
He remembers how Cindy that time stood on the centerboard and the Sunfish came upright again, its mast hurling arcs of droplets against the sky.
The Sunfish bobs in the breaking waves of shallow water, and Judy pulls up the centerboard and jumps off into water up to her shiny hips and pulls the boat like a barge through the last yards before the bow scrapes sand.
I catch three pumpkinseed sunfish and a catfish while Bando gathers tender dandelion leaves, chicory greens, and wild carrots for salad.
Using Lewis's ballpark figures that the Sunfish can cruise on the surface at fifteen knots, she should be able to make Mindanao in ten days.
The sunfish was followed by a pair of small hammerhead sharks no more than five feet in length.
He found large-mouth black bass, goggle-eyes, two species of sunfish, hickory shad, and several kinds of minnows.
The passengers on the port side of the boat were treated to the sight of a huge sunfish, often called a Mola Mola.
And then we'll pick up Cap-tain Houser at the Sunfish, and have several drinks to mark the nonsailing of the Sunfish as originally scheduled.
The Emirates fighters would have been sitting ducks for a Messerschmitt or Spitfire, but they were like sharks against a fat ocean sunfish compared to the slow, lumbering transport the Tawantiinsuujan was flying.
The Emirate's fighters would have been sitting ducks for a Messerschmitt or Spitfire, but they were like sharks against a fat ocean sunfish compared to the slow, lumbering transport the Tawantiinsuujan was flying.
If a Japanese patrol boat appeared, or worse, an airplane, the Sunfish would be in trouble.
It dumped Long Island, Cape Cod, Nantucket, and most of Martha's Vineyard where previously there had just been sea, and it gouged out the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and little Sunfish Pond, among much else.