sunfish (sunfish)

[ Cetorhinus maximus . See cut under basking - shark . (c) The opah or kingfish, Lampris luna. [Eng.] ( d ) The boarfish, Capros aper. [Local, Eng.] (e) One of the numerous small centrarchoid fishes of the United States, belonging to the genus Lepomis or Pomotis and some related genera, Sunfish or Pumpkin-seed ( Lepomis gibbosus). having a long and sometimes spotted but mostly black opercular flap. They are known by many local names, as bream, pond- fish, pond-perch, pumpkin -seed, copper nose, tobacco-box, sun - perch, and sunny. They are among the most abundant of the fresh-water fishes of the United States east of the Rocky Mountain region, and about 25 species are known. In the breeding-season they consort in pairs, and prepare nest by clearing a rounded area, generally near the banks, and watch over the eggs until they are hatched. 2. A jellyfish, especially one of the larger kinds, a foot or so in diameter. See cut under Cyanea. sunfish (sun'fish), v. i. [ sunflower (sun'flou"ėr), п. 1. A plant of the genus Helianthus, so named from its showy golden radiate heads. The common or annual sunflower is H. annuus, a native of the western United States, much planted elsewhere for ornament, and for its oily seeds, which are valued as food for poultry and as a remedy for heaves in horses. (See also sunflower oil, below.) It sun. one another, adjusting devices, and an adjustable arm pivoted to the center of the protractor; the tripod mounting is effected by means of an open-ended tube to which the protractor is attached, the tube being pa ed vertically through the ball of the ball-and-socket joint of the tripod, and held therein by a set-screw. The instrument is used in measuring sectional areas of tunnels. 5. In writing-telegraphs and other electrical instruments and apparatus, a series of alternate conducting and insulating segmental pieces or tablets symmetrically arranged in circular form, each conducting piece being connected with a source of electricity and also with the ground. It is operated by a tracer (also having a ground connection) rotated over the series, and making a circuit in pa ing over any of the conducting segments and breaking it when pa ing over any of the insulating segments. Bastard or false sunflower. See Helenium. - Jungle sunflower, a shrubby South African composite, Osteo spermum mon i life rum, forming a bush 2 to 4 feet high, the rays bright-yellow, the achenia drupaceous and barely edible. A colonial name is bush - tick berry. - Sunflower oil, sunflower-seed oil, a drying-oil expre ed from the seeds of the common sunflower.- Tickseed sunflower. See tickseed .