pompano

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

A butterfish (Peprilus simillimus) of Pacific coastal waters of North America.

A carangoid fish of the West Indies and South Atlantic and Gulf States, Trachynotus carolinus, attaining a length of about 18 inches, and highly esteemed for food.

In California, a fish, Stromateus simillimus, abundant in summer along the coast, and highly esteemed for food.

Along the western coast of Florida, a gerroid fish, Gerres olisthostoma.

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.

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

a small bivalve shell of the genus Donax; — so called because eaten by the pompano.

Any of various fish, of the genera Trachinotus, Parona, or Zalocys, from coastal parts of the North Atlantic

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