sea bream
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- noun
- At dinner, we enjoyed grilled sea bream with a side of roasted vegetables.
Examples
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My favorite dish is pan-seared sea bream served with a light sauce.
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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) -
The chef prepared a delicious sea bream with lemon and herbs, which was the highlight of the meal.
Synonyms
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1.0
Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat
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Animals from the sea that people eat, like fish and shellfish
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1.3
A small oily fish often sold in cans and eaten
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Lean white meat from a large flat fish that people eat
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The flesh of a small oily sea fish eaten as food
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1.0
The white, lean flesh of a large sea fish eaten as food
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3.4
A large sea animal with a shell that people eat for its tender meat
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Meat from fish that live in the sea and people eat
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A small edible shellfish with sweet, tender meat from shallow coastal waters
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Firm white meat from saltwater fish that people eat
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A flat sea fish like a turbot that people eat
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5.7
A dark fish from Australian waters often caught to eat and for sport
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A small fatty fish like a sardine often smoked or canned
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A deep-sea fish with rich oily flesh often cooked for food
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The meat from a trout that lives in the sea that people eat
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The meat of a flat fish with a deep body used for eating
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5.3
The meat of small freshwater fish that people cook and eat
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
How Firm
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is transparently compositional: combining 'sea' (saltwater) with 'bream' (a type of fish) yields a bream that lives in/comes from the sea, so the referent is directly inferable. This noun–noun compounding pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the meaning.
Etymology
Sea bream: The name sea bream was also used for the fish's meat because people often call a fish and its food by the same word. That's why sea bream can mean both the fish and the 'meat' you eat.