Pompanos
pəˌnoʊ 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 waters off the South Atlantic and Gulf states.
2.
a food fish, Preprilus simillimus, of California.
3.
Origin:
1770–80; < Spanish pámpano kind of fish
1770–80; < Spanish pámpano kind of fish
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| —n , pl -no, -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) |
| [C19: from Spanish pámpano type of fish, of uncertain origin] | |
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pompano
1778, from Amer.Sp. pampano, used of various types of fish, from Sp., originally "vine, tendril," from L. pampinus "tendril or leaf of a vine."
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