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noun

Pompano n. (Written also pampano) (Zool.)

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 also palometa. Note: 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.

A California harvest fish (Stromateus simillimus), highly valued as a food fish.

Pompano shell (Zool.), a small bivalve shell of the genus Donax; so called because eaten by the pompano. (Florida)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Long-nose Sucker Common Sucker Hog Sucker Golden Sucker Fallfish Carp Eel Sea Herring Hickory Shad Frostfish Common Whitefish Smelt Tullibee Atlantic Salmon Red-throat Trout Brown Trout Rainbow Trout Lake Trout Brook Trout Grayling Pickerel Northern Pike Shad Menhaden Spanish Mackerel Pompano Bluefish Crappie Calico Bass Rock Bass Sunfish Small-mouth Black Bass Large-mouth Black Bass Wall-eyed Pike Weakfish Red Drum Kingfish Tautog Rosefish Tomcod Haddock Ling Cusk Summer Flounder Flatfish Muscallonge Northern Muscallonge ...

— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis

Words linked to "Pompano" : permit, Trachinotus falcatus, Trachinotus, genus Trachinotus, carangid, saltwater fish, California pompano