bream
noun
any of various freshwater fishes of the genus Abramis, as A. brama, of Europe, with a compressed, deep body and silvery scales.
breams
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pluralof bream.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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After a minute marked by tense silence, two breams emerged from the hole.
From National Geographic ● Mar. 16, 2018
Since arriving in the Solomon Islands, we have found biofluorescence in lineages in which it never has been reported before, including breams and flatheads.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2012
Their chief fish are bonitos, snooks, cavallies, breams, and mullets; and they have abundance of sea-tortoises; and the island has many harbours, creeks, and rivers.
In the night while calm, we fished with hook and line, and caught good store of fish viz., snappers, breams, old-wives, and dog-fish.
From Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier by John Pinkerton
On the platters were quarters of red beef, breams swimming in grease, and sunbirds with their plumage on.
From Mary Magdalen by Edgar Saltus
