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词汇 tarpon
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Definition of tarpon in English:

tarpon

noun ˈtɑːpɒnˈtɑrpən
  • A large tropical marine fish of herring-like appearance.

    大海鲢

    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.

Rhymes

parpen, sharpen

Definition of tarpon in US English:

tarpon

nounˈtärpənˈtɑrpən
  • A large tropical marine fish of herring-like appearance.

    大海鲢

    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.

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