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pompano (iou)



pompano noun. Also (earlier) pampano. Pl. -os, (esp. collect.) same. L18.
[Spanish pampano butterfish (perh. from pampana vine leaf, with ref. to the shape).]
Any of various tropical carangid fishes having a deep, laterally compressed, angular body, many of which are caught for sport. Also, any of various similar fishes of other families, as (more fully Pacific pompano) the stromateid Peprilus simillimus.
African pompano a silvery carangid fish, Alectis crinitus, of the tropical Atlantic and E. Pacific. common pompano, Florida pompano a carangid fish, Trachinotus carolinus, of the W. Atlantic. Pacific pompano: see above.
Comb.: pompano dolphin, pompano dolphinfish a dolphinfish, Coryphaena equisetis, similar to and freq. confused with the dorado, C. hippurus.