pompano
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.
a food fish, Preprilus simillimus, of California.
Origin of 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 HenshallThere is another Spanish word pampano, more nearly resembling pompano in sound and spelling.
Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others | James Alexander HenshallOn 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 HenshallAnd 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
/ (ˈpɒmpəˌnəʊ) /
any of several deep-bodied carangid food fishes of the genus Trachinotus, esp T. carolinus, of American coastal regions of the Atlantic
a spiny-finned food fish, Palometa simillima, of North American coastal regions of the Pacific: family Stromateidae (butterfish, etc)
Origin of pompano
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