ocean sunfish

English

ocean sunfish

Noun

ocean sunfish (plural ocean sunfishes or ocean sunfish)

1. A large, heavy species of bony fish, Mola mola, native to tropical and temperate waters around the world.
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 242:

     At well over a tonne, and sometimes more than two, and 3.3 metres (11 feet) across when fully grown, the Ocean sunfish is the world's heaviest bony fish.

Synonyms

• common mola

Translations

Mola mola

• Asturian: rueda (ast)
• Catalan: bot (ca) m, mola (ca) f, peix lluna (ca) m, lluna (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: möhkäkala
• French: môle (fr) f, poisson-lune (fr) m
• Icelandic: tunglfiskur m
• Japanese: 翻車魚, マンボウ (ja) (manbō)
• Norwegian: månefisk m, klumpfisk m
• Polish: samogłów (pl) m
• Russian: обыкнове́нная луна́-ры́ба f (obyknovénnaja luná-rýba), ры́ба-со́лнце f (rýba-sólnce)
• Spanish: pez luna m
• Turkish: güneş balığı

Further reading

• ocean sunfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mola mola on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Mola mola on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons