What does bream mean?
Bream means A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known..
Bream
/bɹiːm/ · noun
Meaning
A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known..
Definitions by Sense
- A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
- (British) A species in that genus, Abramis brama.
- An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
- A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.
- (nautical) To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.
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- bream
- breams
- breaming
- breamed
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What is a synonym for bream?
Common synonyms include carp bream, sea bream, freshwater bream.
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