bream

About 0.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
2. noun A species in that genus, Abramis brama.
3. noun An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
4. noun A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.
5. verb To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.

Similar words

sea bream freshwater bream carp porgy gilthead gold genus lepomis lepomis carp bream whitebream

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Word family

breamed breaming breams sea bream