noun. A genus of stromateoid fishes of the tropical Pacific coast of America.

noun. [lowercase] A common name for various members of the genus Palometa and of the genus Trachynotus, as T. glaucus, a carangoid fish common in the West Indies and northward to North Carolina.

noun. A type of pompano (Palometa simillima) that is smaller than the Florida pompano; it is common in West Indies. Called also the California pompano.

noun. smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies

"In Colombia the following are the great enemies of the tobacco plant: A grub, named _canne_, which devours the young buds; the _rosca-worm_, which commits its depredations in the night only, burrowing in the ground during the day; the grub of a butterfly, called by the Creoles _palometa_; a species of scarabæus called"

butterfish  stromateid  stromateid fish  

Barletta  Barretta  Betta  Damietta  Etta  

california pompano  

california pompano