pomfret

Definition of Pomfret in English :

1. brama raii, pomfret

deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pomfret

noun

a small black rounded confection of liquorice

. Also called: Pontefract cake

noun

1.

any of various fishes of the genus Stromateidae of the Indian and Pacific oceans: valued as food fishes

2.

any of various scombroid fishes, esp Brama raii, of northern oceans: valued as food fishes

noun

any of a family (Bramidae) of edible, marine percoid fishes

n. pl. pomfret or pom·frets

1. Either of two butterfishes of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Pampus argenteus or P. chinensis.

2. Any of various edible marine fishes of the family Bramidae, having a blunt head and a compressed, usually black body.