pomfret

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

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

In the East Indies, a fish of the genus Stromateoides, distinguished from the other stromateoids by the restricted lateral branchial apertures.

Loosely, any fish of the family Stromateidæ.

A bramoid fish, Brama rayi, Ray’s seabream or hen-fish.

One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (Stromateus niger, Stromateus argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia.

A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji).

A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species.

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