sea bream

sea bream

n.

Any of various marine food fishes of the family Sparidae or Bramidae, especially a sparid fish (Archosargus rhomboidalis) of western Atlantic coastal waters.

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sea bream

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any sparid fish, esp Pagellus centrodontus, of European seas, valued as a food fish

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sea bream - flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae bream sea bream, bream - any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae saltwater fish - flesh of fish from the sea used as food
	2.	sea bream - any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae bream order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes Brama raii, pomfret - deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food porgy - important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide European sea bream, Pagellus centrodontus - food fish of European coastal waters Archosargus rhomboidalis, Atlantic sea bream - sea bream of warm Atlantic waters black bream, Chrysophrys australis - important dark-colored edible food and game fish of Australia sea bream, bream - flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae