BRAMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brama mean? 

• BRAMA (noun)
  The noun BRAMA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Bramidae

  Familiarity information: BRAMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Bramidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Brama; genus Brama

Hypernyms ("Brama" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Brama"):

Brama raii; pomfret (deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food)

Holonyms ("Brama" is a member of...):

Bramidae; family Bramidae (deep-bodied percoid fishes of the open seas)