POMPANO

noun (plural -no or -nos) Etymology: American Spanish pámpano, from Spanish, a percoid fish (Sparus auratus), literally, vine leaf, from Latin pampinus Date: 1778 a carangid food fish ( Trachinotus carolinus ) of the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, a small bluish or greenish butterfish ( Peprilus simillimus ) of the Pacific coast of North America