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pom·fret

(pŏm′frət)
n. pl. pomfret or pom·frets
1. Either of two butterfishes of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Pampus argenteus or P. chinensis.
2. Any of various edible marine fishes of the family Bramidae, having a blunt head and a compressed, usually black body.
[Earlier pamflet, pomflet, probably from Portuguese pampo, pombo, pamplo, pompano, any of various other fishes, especially Stromateus fiatola (probably from alteration of pâmpano, perhaps ultimately from Latin pompilus, pilot fish, any of various other fishes, from Greek pompilos, pilot fish, from pompos, escort or pompē, act of escorting, procession, both from pempein, to escort) + -et or -let.]
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pomfret

(ˈpʌmfrɪt; ˈpɒm-) or

pomfret-cake

n
(Cookery) a small black rounded confection of liquorice. Also called: Pontefract cake
[C19: from Pomfret, earlier form of Pontefract, where the cake was originally made]

pomfret

(ˈpɒmfrɪt)
n
1. (Animals) any of various fishes of the genus Stromateidae of the Indian and Pacific oceans: valued as food fishes
2. (Animals) any of various scombroid fishes, esp Brama raii, of northern oceans: valued as food fishes
[C18: perhaps from a diminutive form of Portuguese pampo]
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Noun 1. [画像:pomfret - deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific]pomfret - deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food
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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The dorsal-fin origin is preceded by scales that cross the dorsal midline and is positioned over the posterior part of the head rather than being well forward, as in other veil-fin bramids such as Pteraclis.
PTERYCOMBUS PETERSII (BRAMIDAE: TELEOSTEI): FIRST RECORD FOR THE EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC
(2009) suggested that recent increases in abundance of other mid-size mesopredators, including bramids (pomfrets) and gempylids (snake mackerels) in pelagic fisheries operating from Hawaii may be attributed to a reduction in apex predators in this ecosystem.
Vertical distribution, diet, and reproduction of the velvet dogfish (Zameus squamulosus) in waters off Hawaii
This record adds another species to the three bramids known from Bermuda.
Fishes of Bermuda

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