pompano

Plural: pompanoes, pompanos

Noun

• A marine food fish, often found in warm waters.
• flesh of pompano; warm-water fatty fish
• any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
• Any of various carangid fish of genus Trachinotus or species Alectis ciliaris (African pompano), from coastal parts of the North Atlantic.
• A Pacific pompano, an edible butterfish of species Peprilus simillimus.

Examples

• He managed to spell POMPANO, a difficult fish name, across two premium squares in Words With Friends.