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Pomfret N Deep Bodied Fish Living Ocean Seas I

Word pomfret
Definition
n. A deep-bodied fish living in ocean seas.

Sentence I must describe my mother, her palm slanted outwards towards the advancing palmist, her eyes wide and unblinking as a pomfret's...
Source Midnight's Children, p. 107

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