Pomfret

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji).

II. Pomfret ·noun One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (S. niger, S. argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia.

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