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Pompano

Pompano \Pom"pa*no\, n. [Sp. p['a]mpano.] [Written also pampano.] (Zo["o]l.)

  1. 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.

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

    Pompano shell (Zo["o]l.), a small bivalve shell of the genus Donax; -- so called because eaten by the pompano.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pompano

ocean fish, 1778, from American Spanish pampano, a name given to various types of fish, from Spanish, originally "vine, tendril," from Latin pampinus "tendril or leaf of a vine."

Wiktionary
pompano

n. 1 Any of various carangid fish, of the genus (taxlink Trachinotus genus noshow=1) or species (taxlink Alectris ciliaris species noshow=1), the (vern African pompano pedia=1), from coastal parts of the North Atlantic. 2 (taxlink Peprilus simillimus species noshow=1), the (vern Pacific pompano pedia=1).

WordNet
pompano
  1. n. flesh of pompano; warm-water fatty fish

  2. any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

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Pompano

Pompanos are marine fishes in the genus Trachinotus in the family Carangidae (better known as "jacks"). Pompano may also refer to various other, similarly shaped members of Carangidae, or the order Perciformes. Their appearance is deep-bodied and mackerel-like, typically silver and toothless with a forked tail and narrow base. Of the 20 described species, most are valued as food. Some species are considered prize delicacies and game fish. A similar species is known as the permit, T. falcatus: two United States Navy submarines are named after it.

The Florida pompano, T. carolinus, reaches about and , while the permit reaches about and more than .

Pompano (disambiguation)

Pompano is a common name for fish in the genus Trachinotus

Pompano may also refer to:

  • Pompano Beach, Florida, a city
  • USS Pompano, three US naval boats:
    • USS Pompano (1906), a supply boat serving during World War I
    • USS Pompano (SS-181), an infamously mechanically unreliable submarine, lost during World War II
    • USS Pompano (SS-491), a submarine, whose construction began late in World War II but was cancelled before completion

Usage examples of "pompano".

Having caught your fish, you may cook him in a thousand ways, but it is doubtful whether, even with the finest sauce, a pompano will taste half as good as the infantile muskellunge, several pounds under the legal weight, fried unskilfully in pork fat by a horny-handed woodsman, kneeling before an open fire, eighteen minutes after you had given up all hope of having fish for dinner, and had resigned yourself to the dubious prospect of salt pork, eggs, and coffee which any self-respecting coffee-mill would fail to recognize.

In case you missed the action, Rivera hosted a two-hour documentary that included live drug busts from several cities, including Pompano Beach and Miami.

That means beignets and crayfish bisque and jambalaya, it means shrimp remoulade, pecan pie, and red beans with rice, it means elegant pompano au papillote, funky file z'herbes, and raw oysters by the dozen, it means grillades for breakfast, a po' boy with chowchow at bedtime, and tubs of gumbo in between.

Like in the song, I'm a Methodist till I die, but come Friday Lacey still cooks up Pompano and man, who can call that fasting?

As the inner hatch opened, she thought of hibiscus blossoms, parrot fish, and the little lizards that scooted along the wall of the Pompano apartment she had shared with Glenn.