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OCEAN SUNFISH
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
headfish; mola; ocean sunfish; sunfish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ocean sunfish" is a kind of...):
plectognath; plectognath fish (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ocean sunfish"):
Mola lanceolata; sharptail mola (caudal fin has a central projection)
Holonyms ("ocean sunfish" is a member of...):
genus Mola (type genus of the Molidae)
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