English > freshwater bream: 2 senses > noun 2, animal| Meaning | Any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis. |
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| Synonym | bream |
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| Member of | Perciformes, order Perciformes, Percomorphi, order Percomorphi | One of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water |
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| Parts | bream, freshwater bream | flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe |
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| Narrower | European bream, Abramis brama | European freshwater fish having a flattened body and silvery scales |
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| bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus | Important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States |
| spotted sunfish, stumpknocker, Lepomis punctatus | Inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida |
| Broader | sunfish, centrarchid | small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster |
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