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bream

 
Noun bream has 4 senses
  1. bream, freshwater bream - flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe
    --1 is a kind of freshwater fish
    --1 is a part of freshwater bream, bream
  2. bream, sea bream - flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae
    --2 is a kind of saltwater fish
    --2 is a part of sea bream, bream
  3. sea bream, bream - any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
    --3 is a kind of percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
    --3 is a member of
     Perciformes, order Perciformes, Percomorphi, order Percomorphi
    --3 has parts: bream, sea bream
    --3 has particulars:
     pomfret, Brama raii; porgy; European sea bream, Pagellus centrodontus; Atlantic sea bream, Archosargus rhomboidalis; black bream, Chrysophrys australis
  4. freshwater bream, bream - any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis
    --4 is a kind of sunfish, centrarchid
    --4 is a member of
     Perciformes, order Perciformes, Percomorphi, order Percomorphi
    --4 has parts: bream, freshwater bream
    --4 has particulars:
     European bream, Abramis brama; bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus; spotted sunfish, stumpknocker, Lepomis punctatus
Verb bream has 1 sense
  1. bream - clean (a ship's bottom) with heat
    --1 is one way to
    clean, make clean
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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