SEA BREAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea bream mean? 

• SEA BREAM (noun)
  The noun SEA BREAM has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: SEA BREAM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA BREAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

bream; sea bream

Hypernyms ("sea bream" is a kind of...):

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Holonyms ("sea bream" is a part of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bream; sea bream

Hypernyms ("sea bream" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Meronyms (parts of "sea bream"):

bream; sea bream (flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea bream"):

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)

Holonyms ("sea bream" is a member of...):

order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)