Crossword clues for pomfret
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pomfret \Pom"fret\, n. [Perhaps corrupt. fr. Pg. pampano a kind of fish.] (Zo["o]l.)
One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus ( Stromateus niger, Stromateus argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
A marine food fish of Bermuda ( Brama Raji).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species. 2 Several species of butterfishes in the genus (taxlink Pampus genus noshow=1).
WordNet
n. deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food [syn: Brama raii]
Wikipedia
Pomfrets are perciform fishes belonging to the family Bramidae. The family includes about 20 species.
They are found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, and the largest species, the Atlantic pomfret, Brama brama, grows up to long.
Several species are important food sources for humans, especially Brama brama in the South Asia. The earlier form of the pomfret's name was , a word which probably ultimately comes from Portuguese pampo, referring to various fish such as the blue butterfish (Stromateus fiatola). This fish also called as 'Maanji' (ಮಾಂಜಿ) in Tulu
Pomfret can refer to several things, including:
- Pomfret, a group of fishes
- Pomfret School in Connecticut
- USS Pomfret, a World War 2 submarine
- Pomfret (surname)
- Earl of Pomfret
- Pomfret, Connecticut
- Pomfret, Maryland
- Pomfret, New York
- Pomfret, Vermont
- Pomfret, South Africa
- Pomfret, the fictional county town in the Inspector Wexford series of books
Pomfret is a surname, and may refer to:
- John Pomfret, English 17th-century poet and clergyman
- John Pomfret (journalist), formerly The Washington Post’s bureau chief in Beijing and Los Angeles, and author of Chinese Lessons
- John Edwin Pomfret (1898–1981), American college president
- Scott Pomfret, American securities lawyer
- William Pomfret (1823–1902), English banker and politician
Usage examples of "pomfret".
They were to be up and have their clothes on and see their good uncle and aunt--Uncle Pomfret and Aunt Jannice.
His uncle Pomfret was a big, broad, stout man with a very red face, large wide-open eyes and a little snub nose.
Uncle Pomfret and Aunt Jannice were laughing at his father for being in such grand clothes.
There was much wine, too, and of this Uncle Pomfret began to drink very heartily indeed, and shouted to the others to do the same.
That part of him, too, that felt, as neither Pomfret nor Harcourt, his brothers, felt, his passionate pride in his family.
He hated Pomfret, despised Harcourt, cared nothing for his cousins, the children of his uncle Robert, who lived London way, nor for his other two cousins, Humphrey and Maurice Cards and their children, Dorothy, Jeremy, and Henry.
London when he, as a boy, lived at Seddon, but Pomfret knew them and despised them both.
People came from Kendal and Carlisle and Penrith to look at it, so that at the last Pomfret and his wife had grown proud of it and spoke of it as entirely their doing.
And yet, of course, this is not all that can be said about Pomfret and his lady.
The terrors into which her dangerous political opinions had again and again plunged Pomfret and his wife were both ludicrous and tragic.
Winchester, until, her brain softening, Pomfret, driven by one of the kindest and gentlest impulses of his life, had given her shelter and protection.
Francis to think how greatly Pomfret must dislike to have all this rapscallion world at his very door.
He had the high, white forehead and the air of breeding that belonged to the Herries, the breeding that even Pomfret could not quite lose.
In the fading afternoon light she could not at first tell who they were, then, realising, amazement stayed her: they were her uncle Pomfret and her cousin Raiseley.
Uncle Pomfret greeted her with a confusion of heartiness and embarrassment, which showed that he was in no way at ease over his visit.