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Bream

noun

(pl. bream)

Flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe. Synonym: freshwater bream.

Flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae. Synonym: sea bream.

Any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae. Synonym: sea bream.

Any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis. Synonym: freshwater bream.

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"Bream" Quotes from Famous Books

... flowers, white potage, or cream of almonds, bream of the sea, conger, soles, cheven, barbel with roach, fresh salmon, halibut, gurnets, broiled roach, fried smelt, crayfish or lobster, leche damask with the king's word or proverb flourished "une sanz plus." Lamprey fresh baked, flampeyn flourished with an escutcheon ...

— Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries • William Francis Dawson

... fish with which it abounds. Two of our crew, who remained on board, caught in a short time enough to last us for several days, and one of the men, who was a Marblehead man, said that he never saw or heard of such an abundance. There were cod, bream, silver-fish, and other kinds, whose names they did not know, ...

— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

... but yet I did not move, while the other fellow pulled out a bream: Oh, I never saw such a large one before, never! And then my wife began to talk aloud, as if she were thinking, and you can see her tricks. She said: 'That is what one might call stolen fish, seeing that we set the bait ourselves. ...

— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

Words linked to "Bream" : porgy, percoid, pomfret, make clean, Abramis brama, saltwater fish, Lepomis macrochirus, percoidean, spotted sunfish, Perciformes, Archosargus rhomboidalis, percoid fish, order Percomorphi, Lepomis punctatus, European sea bream, Chrysophrys australis, clean, Pagellus centrodontus, Percomorphi, order Perciformes, stumpknocker, Brama raii, bluegill, centrarchid, sunfish, freshwater fish