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
[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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Perhaps derived from Portuguese pampano, a kind of fish.
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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