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pompano

(päm′pə nō′)

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any of various edible, marine North American and West Indian jack fishes (esp. genus Trachinotus) with spiny fins and a widely forked tail

Origin: Sp pámpano, a kind of fish, tendril < L pampinus, tendril, young shoot

See pompano in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. pompano pompano or pom·pa·nos

Any of several marine food fishes of the genus Trachinotus, especially T. carolinus, of tropical and temperate Atlantic waters, having a silvery oblong body with a bluish back.

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Origin: American Spanish pámpano, any of several kinds of fish

Origin: , from Spanish, vine tendril, a kind of fish with golden markings

Origin: , from Latin pampinus, vine tendril

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