Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several marine carangid fishes of the genus Caranx, especially the crevalle jack.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The cavally or jurel.
- noun The pompano (
Trachynotus Carolinus ).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I have to vote for most any member of the jack family in salt water (crevalle, amberjack, pompano, etc.).
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I was fishing for speckled trout on the grass flats west of the Chandeleur Islands off Louisiana some years ago when a big jack crevalle hit my lure.
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I have to vote for most any member of the jack family in salt water (crevalle, amberjack, pompano, etc.).
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I was fishing for speckled trout on the grass flats west of the Chandeleur Islands off Louisiana some years ago when a big jack crevalle hit my lure.
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I quickly caught a trout under the slot size (minimum 15 inches, maximum 20 inches), then a hard-fighting jack crevalle.
A Keys Report: Fishing the Backcountry with Executive Editor Mike Toth 2006
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The coastal waters of Virginia Beach and the lower Chesapeake Bay are within the northern range of many south-Atlantic species-including spotted seatrout, red drum, black drum, spadefish, cobia, Spanish mackerel, king mackerel, amberjack, jack crevalle, and even tarpon.
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You're in more danger at the Golden Nugget's roulette wheel: The sharks, stingrays, massive Queensland grouper, and silvery jack crevalle are separated from the swimming pool by a six-inch clear acrylic wall.
CNN.com 2011
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What likely was a jack crevalle attacked their bait and ended up breaking the line.
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The entire movie was shot locally in Stuart and features incredible footage of tarpon, permit, cobia and giant jack crevalle being caught on fly tackle.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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The entire movie was shot locally in Stuart and features incredible footage of tarpon, permit, cobia and giant jack crevalle being caught on fly tackle.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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