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Definition of tarpon in English: tarponnoun ˈtɑːpɒnˈtɑrpən A large tropical marine fish of herring-like appearance. Two species in the family Megalopidae: Tarpon atlanticus, a prized Atlantic game fish, and Megalops cyprinoides of the Indo-Pacific Example sentencesExamples - Among these clades are such diverse forms as arawanas, knifefishes, mormyrids, eels, tarpon, and herring.
- Biologists also are in varying stages of research and replenishment of cobia, speckled trout, tarpon, snook, crappie, bluegill and striped bass stocks.
- There are also, in separate sections, adult turtles and big fish like jewfish, tarpon, snook and stingrays.
- That same morning, I was fighting a leaping tarpon on a tropical flat in southern Belize.
- Newspaper reports and pictures indicated an angler took an adult tarpon while surf casting at Montauk Point on 17 August 1997.
Origin Late 17th century: probably from Dutch tarpoen, perhaps from a Central American language. Definition of tarpon in US English: tarponnounˈtärpənˈtɑrpən A large tropical marine fish of herring-like appearance. Two species in the family Megalopidae: Tarpon atlanticus, a prized Atlantic game fish, and Megalops cyprinoides of the Indo-Pacific Example sentencesExamples - Newspaper reports and pictures indicated an angler took an adult tarpon while surf casting at Montauk Point on 17 August 1997.
- That same morning, I was fighting a leaping tarpon on a tropical flat in southern Belize.
- Biologists also are in varying stages of research and replenishment of cobia, speckled trout, tarpon, snook, crappie, bluegill and striped bass stocks.
- There are also, in separate sections, adult turtles and big fish like jewfish, tarpon, snook and stingrays.
- Among these clades are such diverse forms as arawanas, knifefishes, mormyrids, eels, tarpon, and herring.
Origin Late 17th century: probably from Dutch tarpoen, perhaps from a Central American language. |