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Definition of Tarpons
1. tarpon [n] - See also: tarpon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarpons
Literary usage of Tarpons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The big game fishes of the United States by Charles Frederick Holder (1903)
"Dr. Howe wrote me that he has hooked several tarpons here which he could not
handle; hence, the tarpons of Tampico are of large size. ..."
2. The Boy Anglers: Their Adventures in the Gulf of Mexico, California, the by Charles Frederick Holder (1904)
"They learned that the season is from April to November ; that the catch of the
town of Tarpon was over seven hundred tarpons, taken with a rod, ..."
3. The Boy Anglers: Their Adventures in the Gulf of Mexico, California, the by Charles Frederick Holder (1904)
"They learned that the season is from April to November; that the catch of the
town of Tarpon was over seven hundred tarpons, taken with a rod, ..."
4. Best Dives of the Caribbean by Joyce Huber (2006)
"Lots of tarpons, spotted eagle rays, turtles, reef and nurse sharks pass through.
Blennies, damselfish, barber shrimp, angels and squirrelfish peek out from ..."
5. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"The tarpons. There are four or five species of tarpons inhabiting the tropical seas.
The common FIG. 388. ..."
6. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Two American genera, easily distinguished by the size of the scales and the length
of the last dorsal ray. Genus TARPON Jordan & Evermann. tarpons or ..."
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