Bream

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Bream has 4 senses

bream(n = noun.food) freshwater bream - flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe; Array

is a part of bream, freshwater bream

is a kind of freshwater fish

bream(n = noun.food) sea bream - flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae; Array

is a part of bream, sea bream

is a kind of saltwater fish

bream(n = noun.animal) sea bream - any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae; Array

is a member of order perciformes, order percomorphi, perciformes, percomorphi

is a kind of percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

has particulars: brama raii, pomfret, porgy, european sea bream, pagellus centrodontus, archosargus rhomboidalis, atlantic sea bream, black bream, chrysophrys australis

has parts: bream, sea bream

bream(n = noun.animal) freshwater bream - any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis; Array

has particulars: abramis brama, european bream, bluegill, lepomis macrochirus, lepomis punctatus, spotted sunfish, stumpknocker

is a member of order perciformes, order percomorphi, perciformes, percomorphi

is a kind of centrarchid, sunfish

has parts: bream, freshwater bream

Verb Bream has 1 sense

bream(v = verb.contact) Array - clean (a ship's bottom) with heat; Array

is one way to

clean

make clean

Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY

Bream, n. [OE. breme, brem, F. brême, OF. bresme, of German origin; cf. OHG. brahsema, brahsina, OLG. bressemo, G. brassen. Cf. Brasse.].

A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. [1913 Webster]
An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish. [1913 Webster]
A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream. [1913 Webster]

Bream, v. t. [Cf. Broom, and G. ein schiff brennen.].

To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Bream, n. (pl. same)
1 a yellowish arch-backed freshwater fish, Abramis brama.
2 (in full sea bream) a similarly shaped marine fish of the family Sparidae.

Bream, v.tr. Naut. hist. clean (a ship's bottom) by burning and scraping.

Etymology

prob. f. LG: rel. to BROOM

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