Tarpon (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural tar·pons, (especially collectively) tar·pon.
  1. a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
noun plural -pons or -pon
  1. a large silvery clupeoid game fish, Tarpon atlanticus, of warm Atlantic waters, having a compressed body covered with large scales: family Elopidae
  2. Australian another name for ox-eye herring
  3. any similar related fish
Tarpon (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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