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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pomfret
    n 1: deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the
         northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food
         [syn: pomfret, Brama raii]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pomfret \Pom"fret\, n. [Perhaps corrupt. fr. Pg. pampano a kind
   of fish.] (Zool.)
   (a) One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the
       genus Stromateus (Stromateus niger, Stromateus
       argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
   (b) A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji).
       [1913 Webster]
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