bream : Idioms & Phrases

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atlantic sea bream

  • noun sea bream of warm Atlantic waters
    Archosargus rhomboidalis.
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black bream

  • noun important dark-colored edible food and game fish of Australia
    Chrysophrys australis.
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european bream

  • noun European freshwater fish having a flattened body and silvery scales; of little value as food
    Abramis brama.
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european sea bream

  • noun food fish of European coastal waters
    Pagellus centrodontus.
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freshwater bream

  • noun flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe
    bream.
  • noun any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis
    bream.
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sea bream

  • noun flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae
    bream.
  • noun any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
    bream.
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Sea" bream`
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.
Webster 1913