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pomfret

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pom=fret

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pomfret has 1 sense

pomfret(n = noun.animal) brama raii - deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food; Array

is a member of brama, genus brama

is a kind of bream, sea bream

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CIDE DICTIONARY

pomfret, n. [Perhaps corrupt. fr. Pg. pampano a kind of fish.].

One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (Stromateus niger, Stromateus argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

pomfret, n.
1 any of various fish of the family Stromateidae of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
2 a dark-coloured deep-bodied marine fish, Brama brama, used as food.

Etymology

app. f. Port. pampo

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