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pomfret

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pomfret1, pomfret-cake
n
(Cookery) a small black rounded confection of liquorice Also called Pontefract cake
[from Pomfret, earlier form of Pontefract, where the cake was originally made]
pomfret2
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various fishes of the genus Stromateidae of the Indian and Pacific oceans: valued as food fishes
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various scombroid fishes, esp Brama raii, of northern oceans: valued as food fishes
[perhaps from a diminutive form of Portuguese pampo]
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Noun1.pomfret - deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacificpomfret - deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food
Brama raii
Brama, genus Brama - type genus of the Bramidae
sea bream, bream - any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
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