tarpon
鲢鱼,白鲢鱼,白鲢,鲢鳙鱼
Definitions
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plural tar·pons, tar·pon.
- : a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
Examples
She makes a short cast, but then, we’re not going for tarpon here.
They are the Tarpon, the Falcon, the Sea Fox, and the Octopus.
We fished together—for bluefish in the Long Island sound and for tarpon at Islamorada.
Then ensues a struggle that makes tarpon fishing as tame in comparison as catching shiners.
The Van Rossums are going to Florida, because the old gentleman has lost some tarpon he wants to find again.
Fortunately we had never really felt that our happiness depended upon catching a tarpon.
Probably no one who fishes at all can withstand the temptation to try his hand at tarpon when visiting the Gulf of Mexico waters.
The oarsman said it was a tarpon of average size; but to the fisherman he looked to be fifty feet long and to weigh a ton.