POMFRET

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Brama raii; pomfret

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Nouns denoting animals

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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