freshwater bream
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Noun | 1. | ![]() freshwater bream, bream - any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis freshwater fish - flesh of fish from fresh water used as food |
2. | freshwater bream - any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis Abramis brama, European bream - European freshwater fish having a flattened body and silvery scales; of little value as food order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna centrarchid, sunfish - small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus - important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States Lepomis punctatus, spotted sunfish, stumpknocker - inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish bream, freshwater bream - flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe |
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