pomfret Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food
    Brama raii.

WordNet

Pom"fret noun
Etymology
Perhaps corrupt. fr. Pg. pampano a kind of fish.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (a) One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (S. niger, S. argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia. (b) A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji).

Webster 1913