bream
English
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) braisme (compare French (deprecated template usage) brème), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *brahsima (compare Dutch (deprecated template usage) brasem).
Pronunciation
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Noun
bream (plural bream or breams)
- A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
- (deprecated template usage) (British) A species in that genus, Abramis brama.
- An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
- A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See sea bream.
Synonyms
- (Abramis brama): carp bream
Derived terms
Translations
fish of the genus Abramis
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Abramis brama
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American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera
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marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera
Anagrams
Etymology 2
Compare (deprecated template usage) broom, and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German (deprecated template usage) brennen (as in ein Schiff brennen).
Verb
bream (third-person singular simple present breams, present participle breaming, simple past and past participle breamed)
- (deprecated template usage) (nautical) To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.
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