sea bream

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noun

any of numerous marine sparid fishes, as Pagellus centrodontus, inhabiting waters off the coasts of Europe.

a porgy, Archosargus rhomboidalis, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.

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Origin of sea bream

First recorded in 1520–30

Words nearby sea bream

Seaborg, seaborgium, sea-born, seaborne, sea bread, sea bream, sea breeze, Seabright bantam syndrome, sea buckthorn, Seabury, sea butterfly

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How to use sea bream in a sentence

Recently she found that sea bream larvae are extremely vulnerable to extreme heat—they can’t move much to escape warm waters, but young fish are very good at surviving them.
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My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
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It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.
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The wreckage lies no more than around 100 feet down in the Java Sea.
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And for those on the Palestinian right who still dream of driving the Jews into the sea, they too can forget it.
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Edna did not reveal so much as all this to Madame Ratignolle that summer day when they sat with faces turned to the sea.
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Edna Pontellier, casting her eyes about, had finally kept them at rest upon the sea.
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The countries about the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea and its adjoining waters.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth again, and all waters shall return to the sea.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.
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British Dictionary definitions for sea bream

sea bream

noun

any sparid fish, esp Pagellus centrodontus, of European seas, valued as a food fish

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