Any of various freshwater sunfishes of the genus Lepomis (family Centrarchidae), resembling, resembling the common European bream.

North American. Any of various freshwater cyprinid fishes which resemble the true roach or are mistaken for it; esp. the fallfish (Semotilus corpo…

Any of numerous freshwater and marine fishes which have a compressed, discoid body, a colourful or… Chiefly U.S. Any of various small ray-finned…

North American. A freshwater sunfish of eastern North America, either the pumpkinseed, Lepomis gibbosus, or the redbreast sunfish, L. auritus. Obs…

Any of various fishes with yellow underparts, esp. the golden perch, Macquaria ambigua.

Chiefly U.S. The redbreast sunfish, Lepomis auritus.

= bream, n. spec. U.S. the long-eared sunfish (Lepomis auritus); cf. bream, n. 2b.

a sunfish (see sunfish, n. 1b).

Now usually as one word. A small, brightly coloured, freshwater sunfish, Lepomis gibbosus (family Centrarchidae), which is native to North America…

A sunfish (see sunfish, n. 1b).

A freshwater sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus (family Centrarchidae), with a dark blue spot on the rear of the opercular flap, which is native to North…

U.S. In full redbreast sunfish. A freshwater sunfish, Lepomis auritus (family Centrarchidae), of eastern North America, the male of which has a…

Local name for two North American fishes, from their flattened shape: (a) a species of skate or ray, Raia erinacea; (b) the common sunfish, Lepomis gi…

= redear, n. 1.

the red-ear sunfish, Lepomis megalotis.

A sunfish (see sunfish, n. 1b). Cf. sunny, n. Obsolete. rare.

In full redear sunfish. A freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophus (family Centrarchidae), of the southern United States, the male of which has a…