bream

bream is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
2. noun. An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.
3. noun. A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.
4. transitive verb. To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.
5. noun. any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis
6. noun. any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
7. noun. flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae
8. noun. flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe
9. verb. clean (a ship's bottom) with heat

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bream:

amber, bearm, bemar, brame, embar

Common word forms

breams, breamed, breaming

Words from these letters

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