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Pompano
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Pompano has 2 senses
- pompano(n = noun.food) Array - flesh of pompano; warm-water fatty fish; Array is a part of pompano
- pompano(n = noun.animal) Array - any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico; Array is a kind of carangid, carangid fish
is a kind of saltwater fish
is a member of genus trachinotus, trachinotus
has particulars: florida pompano, trachinotus carolinus, permit, trachinotus falcatus
has parts: pompano
CIDE DICTIONARY
Pompano, n. [Sp. pámpano.].
- Any one of several species of marine fishes of the genus
Trachynotus , of which four species are found on the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- called alsopalometa . [1913 Webster]" They have a brilliant silvery or golden luster, and are highly esteemed as food fishes. The round pompano (Trachynotus thomboides ) and the Carolina pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus ) are the most common. Other species occur on the Pacific coast." [1913 Webster] - A California harvest fish (
Stromateus simillimus ), highly valued as a food fish. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Pompano, n. (pl. -os) any of various fish of the family Carangidae or Stromateidae of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, used as food.
Etymology
Sp. p{aacute}mpano
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