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POMFRET

English dictionary: Word overview

POMFRET (noun)
  The noun POMFRET has 1 sense:

1. deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food

  Familiarity information: POMFRET used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


POMFRET (noun)


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Meaning:

Deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Brama raii; pomfret

Hypernyms ("pomfret" is a kind of...):

bream; sea bream (any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae)

Holonyms ("pomfret" is a member of...):

Brama; genus Brama (type genus of the Bramidae)


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