pompano

[ pom-puh-noh ]

noun,plural (especially collectively) pom·pa·no, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) pom·pa·nos.
  1. Also Florida pompano . a deep-bodied food fish, Trachinotus carolinus, inhabiting coastal waters from New England to Brazil but mostly near Florida: a popular, fast-growing species in aquaculture.

  2. a food fish, Preprilus simillimus, of California.

Origin of pompano

1
First recorded in 1770–80; from Spanish pámpano kind of fish

Words Nearby pompano

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How to use pompano in a sentence

  • Homicide detectives arrested Simon, 24, of pompano Beach Tuesday night.

  • I consider the pompano to be the best food-fish in either salt or fresh water—the prince of food-fishes, it is incomparable.

    Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others | James Alexander Henshall
  • There is another Spanish word pampano, more nearly resembling pompano in sound and spelling.

    Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others | James Alexander Henshall
  • On their outside beaches, during the flood tide, the beach-fleas and pompano-shells come rolling in on every wave.

    Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others | James Alexander Henshall
  • And this continues during the first half of the flood tide, during which time schools of pompano are feeding on them.

    Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others | James Alexander Henshall
  • Some of the fish found here are choice and costly delicacies, and include red snapper, pompano, Spanish mackerel and sea trout.

    My Native Land | James Cox

British Dictionary definitions for pompano

pompano

/ (ˈpɒmpəˌnəʊ) /


nounplural -no or -nos
  1. any of several deep-bodied carangid food fishes of the genus Trachinotus, esp T. carolinus, of American coastal regions of the Atlantic

  2. a spiny-finned food fish, Palometa simillima, of North American coastal regions of the Pacific: family Stromateidae (butterfish, etc)

Origin of pompano

1
C19: from Spanish pámpano type of fish, of uncertain origin

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