PANFISHES Synonyms

• important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States

• flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe

• flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae

• any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae

• any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis

• clean (a ship's bottom) with heat

• small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers

• small sunfishes of central United States rivers

• support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)

• a linear measure of 16.5 feet

• a square rod of land

• an elevated place serving as a seat

• any of numerous fishes of America and Europe

• spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes

• any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes

• sit, as on a branch

• to come to rest, settle

• cause to perch or sit

• small brilliantly colored North American sunfish

• the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae

• 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

• small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed

• a kind of sea bass

• game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes