ocean sunfish

n. A large marine fish (Mola mola) having an oval body with long dorsal and anal fins and a short tail, found in temperate and tropical seas worldwide. Also called mola².

o′cean sun′fish

n. a large sluggish mola, Mola mola. [1620–30]

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ocean sunfish - 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 watersheadfish, mola, sunfishplectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spinesgenus Mola - type genus of the MolidaeMola lanceolata, sharptail mola - caudal fin has a central projection

ocean sunfish

ocean sunfish:

see pufferpuffer
or pufferfish,
common name for some tropical marine fish of the family Tetraodontidae. The puffers and their allies, including the boxfish, the porcupinefish, the triggerfish, and the marine sunfish form an odd group (order Tetraodontiformes).
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Ocean Sunfish

(Mola mola) a fish of the order Plectognathi. In the adult stage, the deep, strongly compressed body has no apparent tail section. The dorsal and anal fins are very tall. The body measures up to 2.5 m long and weighs over 500 kg (sometimes as much as 1,000 kg). The ocean sunfish is extremely fertile, laying up to 300 million eggs (only small numbers of which survive). The larvae have long, threadlike growths on their bodies. Ocean sunfish inhabit warm seas; in the USSR they are found infrequently in the Sea of Japan (near Vladivostok). They feed on plankton and small fish. Ocean sunfish have no commercial value.

ocean sunfish

ocean sunfish

o′cean sun′fish

ocean sunfish

ocean sunfish:

Ocean Sunfish

ocean sunfish

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noun among the largest bony fish

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