green sunfish


green sunfish

noun

Definition of GREEN SUNFISH

: a sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus) of the Great Lakes region and southwestward to the Rio Grande that is largely greenish above with a blue spot on many of the scales

First Known Use of GREEN SUNFISH

circa 1896

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