Pompano (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural (especially collectively) pom·pa·no, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) pom·pa·nos.
  1. 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.
  3. coquina (def. 1).
noun plural -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)
Pompano (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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