pompano
Americannoun
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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.
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a food fish, Preprilus simillimus, of California.
noun
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any of several deep-bodied carangid food fishes of the genus Trachinotus, esp T. carolinus, of American coastal regions of the Atlantic
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a spiny-finned food fish, Palometa simillima, of North American coastal regions of the Pacific: family Stromateidae (butterfish, etc)
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Etymology
Origin of pompano
First recorded in 1770–80; from Spanish pámpano kind of fish
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I remember the first time I heard about pompano en papillote, I thought it sounded so fancy.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2021
Bob Hall Pier is still an excellent spot for redfish, trout, pompano, jacks, black drum, and flounder.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 22, 2020
But weirdly also pompano, tropical fish with pretty pink highlights, iridescent as a soap bubble, that were not supposed to be there at all.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2019
“Philosophically, we are more like Maysville,” he says, though local pompano and trout replace Maysville’s porgy and char.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2016
The pompano, broiled over the low fire, tasted good.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
There one may also capture blue-fish, white-fish, sheepheads and pompanos; all delicious, the pompanos being the most highly-prized and esteemed, and most expensive, of America's many fine table fishes.
From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Carson, Thomas
What you've been saying—about butter and pompanos and wall-paper and my den and all that?
From A Damsel in Distress by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
The yellow-tail belongs to the family Carangidæ, the same to which belong the pompanos, and is one of the gamiest of sea fishes.
From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Payne, Harry Thom
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