bream
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6.0
- noun
- /brim/
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bremas
- Including its tail fin, the fish robot, which is a 5:1 scale model of a gilthead sea bream, is nearly five feet long.
- sea bream
Examples
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For dinner, she prepared a dish featuring bream seasoned with herbs and lemon.
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In the lake, many anglers enjoy the challenge of fishing for bream during the summer months.
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One day, Harold proposed to spend the afternoon fishing for bream.
Fiction book (2002) -
I caught crappie, bream, and blue cats.
Fiction book (1996) -
A bream makes a pass at his yellow-and-green bug, which he pops from the water, a sound like a cork being pulled from a bottle.
Fiction book (1996) -
Bass, gar, bream, carp, and catfish all lived in the river.
Fiction book (2000) -
For a time, we stood there silently, both of us staring into that perfectly clear water in which nothing moved except schools of minnows and a few bream too small to be worth the effort.
Fiction book (2000) -
Fishermen will come to fill their creels with bream, bluegill, sac-a-lait.
Fiction book (1993) -
The local fishermen caught a variety of fish, including bream, which are popular for their delicate flavor.
Synonyms
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5.1
A sea fish with a deep, flat body often eaten
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5.7
A dark fish from Australian waters often caught to eat and for sport
A common European freshwater fish with a flat body and silvery scales not often eaten
A freshwater fish with a flat body and silver scales that is not often eaten
A freshwater fish with a flat body and shiny scales
A group of freshwater fish found in Europe that includes bream
A small sea fish like a bream that lives in European, Atlantic, and Mediterranean waters
A sea fish with a round body that lives in warm Atlantic waters and people eat
A fish people eat that lives near the coasts of Europe
A small freshwater fish with golden sides often used as bait
Compounds
A sea fish with a round body that lives in warm Atlantic waters and people eat
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bream for the fish comes from old German and Dutch names for the same flat, deep fish, like German 'Brasse' and Dutch 'brasem', and has been used for this fish for many centuries. So bream today still means that kind of fish.