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noun

Bream n.

(Zool.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.

(Zool.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.

(Zool.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bream" Quotes from Famous Books

... flowers, white potage, or cream of almonds, bream of the sea, conger, soles, cheven, barbel with roach, fresh salmon, halibut, gurnets, broiled roach, fried smelt, crayfish or lobster, leche damask with the king's word or proverb flourished "une sanz plus." ...

— Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries • William Francis Dawson

... mottled. Fountains of perfumed water shoot aloft from the floor, and fish swim in rocky channels round about the room, waiting to be caught and killed for the banquet. We dine; and we feast on the head of the ostrich, the brains of the peacock, the liver of the bream, the milk of the murena, and the tongue of the flamingo. A flight of doves, nightingales, beccaficoes are concentrated into one dish. On great occasions we eat a phoenix. Our saucepans are of silver, our dishes of gold, our vases of onyx, and our cups ...

— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman

... long, and is excellently adapted for hauling a seine, which both ships did repeatedly with success. Behind this is a plain or flat, with a salt, or rather brackish lake (running in length parallel with the beach), out of which we caught, with angling rods, many whitish bream, and some small trout. The other parts of the country adjoining the bay are quite hilly; and both those and the flat are an entire forest of very tall trees, rendered almost impassable by shrubs, brakes of fern, and fallen trees; except on the sides of some of ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 (of 18) • Robert Kerr

Words linked to "Bream" : Atlantic sea bream, Lepomis macrochirus, Abramis brama, order Perciformes, Lepomis punctatus, freshwater fish, black bream, stumpknocker, Chrysophrys australis, bluegill, Archosargus rhomboidalis, saltwater fish, percoid fish, Pagellus centrodontus, centrarchid, order Percomorphi, pomfret, Percomorphi, percoid, Brama raii, clean, porgy, Perciformes, sunfish, make clean, spotted sunfish, percoidean, sea bream, European sea bream, freshwater bream