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Tarpon

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several fishes of the family Elopidae or Megalopidae, especially a large silvery game fish.

    "You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--"

  2. 2
    large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida wordnet

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Compare Dutch tarpoen. Suggestions that the term derives from a Native American term are unlikely.

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