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Bream has 8 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Verb · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe

2

flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae

3

any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae

4

any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis

5

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

Verb
1

clean (a ship's bottom) with heat

2

To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.

Proper Noun
1

A surname​.

See Also
abramis brama fire zarthe cyprinoid lepomis abramis application sunfish
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
freshwater fish saltwater fish percoid fish sunfish clean
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
pomfret porgy European sea bream Atlantic sea bream black bream European bream bluegill spotted sunfish
Rhyming Words
eam beam heam ream neam team leam seam gleam fleam cheam bleam sweam fream steam dream abeam cream embeam unteam
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