[ noun ] deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food <noun.animal>
Pomfret \Pom"fret\, n. [Perhaps corrupt. fr. Pg. pampano a kind of fish.] (Zo["o]l.) (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}).