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