silver bream

noun

Blicca bjoerkna (white bream), a freshwater species of cyprinids from Europe and Western Asia.

Meanings

nounsilver bream (plural silver breams)

plural silver breams

  1. A fish from any of several species:
    1. Blicca bjoerkna (white bream), a freshwater species of cyprinids from Europe and Western Asia.
    2. Pseudocaranx dentex (silver trevally, white trevally), marine species of jack widespread in tropical and warm temperate waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea.
    3. Acanthopagrus australis (yellowfin bream, surf bream), eastern Australian sea breams.
    4. Acanthopagrus berda (goldsilk sea bream), marine species of sea bream from the Indian Ocean
    5. Acanthopagrus butcheri (southern black bream), marine and freshwater species of sea bream from southern Australia
    6. Rhabdosargus sarba (goldlined sea bream), marine species of sea bream from the Indo-West Pacific
    7. Bidyanus bidyanus (silver perch), freshwater species of grunters endemic to the Murray–Darling river system in southeastern Australia
    8. Bidyanus welchi (Welch's grunter), freshwater species of grunters from Australia
    9. Nemadactylus macropterus (tarakihi), marine species of morwong

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