sunny
6 definitions found
sunny - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Pondfish \Pond"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water fishes
belonging to the family Centrarchid[ae]; -- called also
pond perch, and sunfish.
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Note: The common pondfish of New England (Lepomis gibbosus)
is called also bream, pumpkin seed, and sunny.
See Sunfish. The long-eared pondfish (Lepomis auritus
) of the Eastern United States is distinguished
by its very long opercular flap.
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Sunfish \Sun"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
(a) A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda
, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body
and a truncated tail.
(b) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American
fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They
have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines.
Among the common species of the Eastern United States are
Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish,
pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or
dollardee (Lepomis pallidus), and the long-eared
sunfish (Lepomis auritus). Several of the species are
called also pondfish.
(c) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
(d) The opah.
(e) The basking, or liver, shark.
(f) Any large jellyfish.
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Sunny \Sun"ny\, a. [Compar. Sunnier; superl. Sunniest.]
1. Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from, or
resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant;
radiant. "Sunny beams." --Spenser. "Sunny locks." --Shak.
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2. Exposed to the rays of the sun; brightened or warmed by
the direct rays of the sun; as, a sunny room; the sunny
side of a hill.
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Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores.
--Addison.
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3. Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition.
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My decayed fair
A sunny look of his would soon repair. --Shak.
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Sunny \Sun"ny\, n. (Zool.)
See Sunfish
(b) .
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sunny - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
sunny
adj 1: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a
cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn:
cheery, gay, sunny]
sunny - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "sunny":
Leibnizian, Saturnian, aestival, aglow, balmy, beaming, beamy,
blithe, blithesome, blood-hot, blood-warm, blushing, bright,
bright and sunny, brilliant, bubbly, buoyant, burning, calid,
candescent, cheerful, cheery, chiliastic, chirk, chirpy, chirrupy,
clarion, clear, cloudless, couleur de rose, ebullient, elated,
equatorial, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, fair, fine,
flushed, flushing, friendly, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleaming,
gleamy, glinting, glowing, halcyon, happy, high, hopeful,
illuminant, in good spirits, in high spirits, incandescent,
irradiative, irrepressible, jolly, joyful, joyous, lamping,
laughing, light as day, light-hearted, lightsome, luciferous,
lucific, luciform, luke, lukewarm, luminant, luminative,
luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, mild, millenarian,
millennialistic, mirthful, of good cheer, optimistic, orient,
outgoing, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, pleasant, radiant,
rainless, riant, room-temperature, rose-colored, roseate, rosy,
rutilant, rutilous, sanguine, sanguineous, shining, shiny, smiling,
sparkling, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, subtropical,
suffused, summery, sunlit, sunshiny, temperate, tepid, thermal,
thermic, toasty, tropical, unclouded, undarkened, unfrozen, upbeat,
utopian, warm, warm as toast, warmish, winsome
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