Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two butterfishes of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Pampus argenteus or P. chinensis.
- noun Any of various edible marine fishes of the family Bramidae, having a blunt head and a compressed, usually black body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the East Indies, a fish of the genus Stromateoides, distinguished from the other stromateoids by the restricted lateral branchial apertures.
- noun Loosely, any fish of the family Stromateidæ.
- noun A bramoid fish, Brama rayi, Ray's seabream or hen-fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (
Stromateus niger ,Stromateus argenteus ) native of Southern Europe and Asia. - noun A marine food fish of Bermuda (
Brama Raji ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Product does not contain pomfret, squid, shrimp or crab.
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So after coming from work, I used to flip through the yellow pages, call the fishmongers and pester them with questions about "pomfret", "mackrel", "king fish"...
Sungatha Fanna upkari - Fiery Prawns Curry Meera 2009
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So after coming from work, I used to flip through the yellow pages, call the fishmongers and pester them with questions about "pomfret", "mackrel", "king fish"...
Archive 2009-08-01 Meera 2009
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"Profit-making fish such as pomfret have gone 12 to 14 nautical miles away, so men go far into the sea.
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Ratnagiri boasts an annual catch of 1,25,000 tonnes of a variety of fish, including pomfret, surmai (kingfish), bangda (Indian mackerel) and rawas (Indian salmon), but with the project, those numbers could dwindle significantly.
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Ratnagiri boasts an annual catch of 1,25,000 tonnes of a variety of fish, including pomfret, surmai (kingfish), bangda (Indian mackerel) and rawas (Indian salmon), but with the project, those numbers could dwindle significantly.
Field of Fissures 2011
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Ratnagiri boasts an annual catch of 1,25,000 tonnes of a variety of fish, including pomfret, surmai (kingfish), bangda (Indian mackerel) and rawas (Indian salmon), but with the project, those numbers could dwindle significantly.
Field of Fissures 2011
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Ratnagiri boasts an annual catch of 1,25,000 tonnes of a variety of fish, including pomfret, surmai (kingfish), bangda (Indian mackerel) and rawas (Indian salmon), but with the project, those numbers could dwindle significantly.
Field of Fissures 2011
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Instead of using imported frozen pomfret for a fish curry, for instance, he might use fresh striped bass or halibut.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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The label depicts a pomfret, a squid, some shrimp and a crab – the fine print under the picture says this:
bilby commented on the word pomfret
Sounds like fish and chips.
July 6, 2009
dontcry commented on the word pomfret
Sounds like potato angst.
July 6, 2009