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Noun: ocean sunfish
  1. 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
    - sunfish, mola, headfish

Derived forms: ocean sunfishes

Type of: plectognath, plectognath fish

Part of: genus Mola

Encyclopedia: Ocean sunfish