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freshwater bream

freshwater bream

6.9
Meat from freshwater fish eaten as food
  • noun
  • /ˈfrɛʃˌwɔːtər briːm/
  • UK
translation icon : carne de breme de agua dulce
  • I bought a pound of freshwater bream at the market for dinner tonight.

Examples

  • The restaurant's special today features grilled freshwater bream with lemon and herbs.

  • Many anglers enjoy cooking freshwater bream after a successful day of fishing.

  • Look at that freshwater bream!

  • We caught a large freshwater bream in the lake.

  • I bought a pound of freshwater bream at the market for dinner tonight.

  • The restaurant's special today features grilled freshwater bream with lemon and herbs.

  • Many anglers enjoy cooking freshwater bream after a successful day of fishing.

Synonyms

freshwater fish
vsfreshwater bream
3 2.0

A water animal that lives in rivers or lakes and people eat

is narrower, naming those eaten fish mainly from North America or Europe
bream
vsfreshwater bream
7.4

The meat of a flat fish with a deep body used for eating

is broader, covering various eaten species from non salty waters in specific regions

Surface Forms

freshwater bream singular
freshwater breams plural

Morphology

freshwater + bream

The phrase denotes a bream that lives in or comes from non-salty (fresh) water, which is directly and transparently derived from combining 'freshwater' (not salty water) with 'bream' (a fish). This simple noun–noun compound follows a common descriptive pattern (type/habitat) found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the meaning (including its edible/food sense).

Etymology

Freshwater bream can also mean the 'flesh' or meat of the bream, because cooks and markets often use the same name for the fish and for its food.