bream
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- noun
- /brim/
- Dressed in a turtleneck shirt and black corduroy pants, Sensei paused in front of a fish shop to ogle at a flayed sea bream on ice.
- sea bream
Examples
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Muriel wants grilled bream.
Fiction book (1999) -
At the restaurant, I ordered bream because I wanted to try something new.
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I feel sorry for a flayed bream on ice.
Fiction book (2002) -
I wouldn't ask for a sea bream with its head on or anything luxurious.
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She ate only a few bites of her sea bream and sat staring out the window at the dusk.
Fiction book (1997) -
It was to be a simple traditional dinner of celebration: rice with red azuki beans, greens, and a red sea bream.
Fiction book (1991) -
For dinner, we enjoyed grilled bream served with lemon and herbs.
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The chef prepared a delicious dish of bream with seasonal vegetables.
Synonyms
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Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat
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5.7
A dark fish from Australian waters often caught to eat and for sport
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Meat from certain sea fish that people eat
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A small freshwater fish with golden sides often used as bait
Meat from freshwater fish eaten as food
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 sea bream fish that lives in warm Atlantic waters
A small sea fish like a bream that lives in European, Atlantic, and Mediterranean waters
A group of freshwater fish found in Europe that includes bream
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
Compounds
A sea fish with a round body that lives in warm Atlantic waters and people eat
How Oily
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bream meaning the fish flesh comes straight from the fish name — like how 'chicken' can mean the bird or its meat — so bream can refer to the fish meat you eat.