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Meanings of bream in English

Portuguese
brema

Flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe.

        brema
        Portuguese
        brema-do-mar
        Catalan
        besuc
        Spanish
        besugo

        Flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae.

              brema-do-mar
              Usage of bream in English
              1
              The local sea bream is delicious, as are the Inland Sea oysters.
              Number9Dream
              2
              There's carp and bream under the old mill-dam up in Norman's Woods.
              Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures; Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund
              3
              We identified and characterized the molecular properties of LEAP-2 in rock bream.
              Pubmed
              4
              The fish commonly caught are mullet, perch, barbel, gudgeon, bream, and chub.
              Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
              5
              I chose a fillet steak while Eleanor decided on the pan-fried sea bream.
              Silks
              6
              The bream and the perch put their heads together in a quiet pool.
              Old Peter's Russian Tales
              7
              The best fish to use is bream, cod, haddock, or turbot.
              Arabesque: a taste of morocco, turkey, and lebanon
              8
              Randy could not net a shiner, bream, cat, or even mudfish.
              Alas, Babylon
              9
              Use skinned fillets of white fish such as bream, turbot, haddock, or cod.
              Arabesque: a taste of morocco, turkey, and lebanon
              10
              The old sport appeared to expect to fetch some bream.
              Botchan (Master Darling)
              11
              Ben held up a string of bream and speckled perch.
              Alas, Babylon
              12
              She nodded, sucking in a deep bream that returned some color to her cheeks.
              Sword of god
              13
              One sportsman, says a news item, has landed seventy-seven pounds of bream at Wrexham.
              Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 29, 1917
              14
              Sano nearly choked on a mouthful of sea bream.
              Shinjū
              15
              Just off Beachy Head there is an area of the Channel where sea bream reproduce.
              The Guardian
              16
              Here is a bream; there a lump of sterlet.
              The Talking Beasts: A Book of Fable Wisdom
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              Translations for bream
              Catalan
              besuc
              Spanish
              besugo
              Bream through the time
              Bream across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common