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What (who) is Tarpon - definition
![''[[Selmasaurus]]'' (a [[mosasaur]]) hunting a prehistoric tarpon](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Selmasaurus life.png?width=200 "''[[Selmasaurus]]'' (a [[mosasaur]]) hunting a prehistoric tarpon")
tarpon
GENUS OF FISHES
Megalopidae; Megalops; Megalopid; Tarpoon
['t?:p?n]
¦ noun a large tropical marine fish of herring-like appearance. [Tarpon atlanticus (Atlantic) and Megalops cyprinoides (Indo-Pacific).]
Origin
C17: prob. from Du. tarpoen, perh. from a Central Amer. lang.
Megalops
GENUS OF FISHES
Megalopidae; Megalops; Megalopid; Tarpoon
·noun A large fish; the tarpum.
II. Megalops ·noun A larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively.
Examples of use of Tarpon
1. TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. –– The mother of the so–called "D.C.
2. On Thursday, police in Tarpon Springs, 30 miles north of St.
3. The western side of the island chain offers backcountry and flats fishing for bonefish, tarpon, permit, redfish and snook.
4. "I am not afraid." A hurricane watch was in effect for most of the Keys and along Florida‘s west coast to Tarpon Springs.
5. But even without the monkeys, wildlife abounds, from white herons to sharks to rays and schools of several–foot–long silvery barracuda and tarpon.