Pomfret

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

pomfret
    n 1: deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the
         northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food
         [syn: {pomfret}, {Brama raii}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pomfret \Pom"fret\, n. [Perhaps corrupt. fr. Pg. pampano a kind
   of fish.] (Zool.)
   (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}).
       [1913 Webster]

from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

Pomfret, MD
  Zip code(s): 20675