pompano

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun 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.
• noun In California, a fish, Stromateus simillimus, abundant in summer along the coast, and highly esteemed for food.
• noun Along the western coast of Florida, a gerroid fish, Gerres olisthostoma.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) 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.
• noun A California harvest fish (Stromateus simillimus), highly valued as a food fish.
• noun (Zoöl.), [Florida] a small bivalve shell of the genus Donax; -- so called because eaten by the pompano.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
• noun flesh of pompano; warm-water fatty fish