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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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  ({T. 
  thomboides})  and  the  Carolina  pompano  ({T.  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. 
  [Florida] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pompano 
  n  1:  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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