/pom"frit, pum"-/ , n. , pl. ( esp. collectively ) pomfret , ( esp. referring to two or more kinds or species ) pomfrets .
1. any of several scombroid fishes of the family Bramidae, found in the North Atlantic and Pacific.
2. any of several East Indian stromateid fishes, esp. Stromateoides argenteus, valued as food.
[ 1720-30; earlier pamplee, pamflet, pomphlet; cf. F pample, Pg pampo ]