'Pomfret' definitions:

Definition of 'pomfret'

(from WordNet)
noun
Deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food [syn: pomfret, Brama raii]

Definition of 'Pomfret'

From: GCIDE
  • Pomfret \Pom"fret\, n. [Perhaps corrupt. fr. Pg. pampano a kind of fish.] (Zool.) (a) One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (Stromateus niger, {Stromateus argenteus}) native of Southern Europe and Asia. (b) A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji). [1913 Webster]