Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pomfret"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pomfret \Pom"fret\, n. [Perhaps corrupt. fr. Pg. pampano a kind
of fish.] (Zo["o]l.)
(a) One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the
genus {Stromateus} ({S. niger}, {S. argenteus}) native of
Southern Europe and Asia.
(b) A marine food fish of Bermuda ({Brama Raji}).
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pomfret
n : deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of North
Atlantic and North Pacific; valued for food [syn: {Brama
raii}]
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