bream

A noun referring to various freshwater and saltwater fish, including those of the family Sparidae or Bramidae, often characterized by compressed bodies and shiny scales.

• 🇨🇳名词，指多种淡水及海水鱼类，包括鲤科的鳊鱼和鲷科的鲷鱼，通常身体侧扁、鳞片闪亮。

1. Freshwater fish B1 formal

   A type of freshwater fish with a deep, compressed body and shiny scales, commonly found in North America and Europe.

   • We caught several bream while fishing in the lake.
   • Bream are popular among anglers for their fighting spirit.
   • The pond is stocked with bluegill and other bream species.

   🇨🇳鳊鱼

   同义词: freshwater bream

2. Saltwater fish B1 formal culinary

   Any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or Bramidae, often valued as food fish.

   • The restaurant serves grilled sea bream with lemon and herbs.
   • Sea bream is a popular dish in Mediterranean cuisine.
   • Fishermen brought in a large catch of red bream from the ocean.

   🇨🇳海鲷

   同义词: porgy

3. Flesh as food B1 formal culinary

   The edible flesh of bream fish, whether from freshwater or saltwater varieties.

   • The bream was baked with garlic and olive oil.
   • She prepared a delicious bream fillet for dinner.
   • Bream has a mild, flaky white flesh that is easy to cook.

   🇨🇳鳊鱼肉

• bream plural form
• breams plural form
• breams' possessive plural form
• bream's possessive singular form

An obsolete verb meaning to clean a ship's hull by burning off seaweed, barnacles, and other marine growth, or to clear a ship's bottom of such growth.

• 🇨🇳指用火烧灼的方式清除船体底部附着的海藻、贝壳等海洋生物污损，或泛指清除这类附着物。

1. Clean a ship's bottom C2 formal british

   To clean the bottom of a wooden ship by burning off seaweed, barnacles, and other growth using heat.

   • The sailors had to bream the hull after the long voyage.
   • They beached the vessel to bream its bottom.
   • Breaming was a common maintenance task for old wooden ships.

   🇨🇳清理船底

• breamed past participle
• breamed past simple
• breaming present participle
• breams third person singular