sea-breamn.
1. A name applied to several sparoid fishes, esp. Pagellus centrodontus.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of (sea-bream)
baleenc1185
sea-bream1530
old wife1585
pargo1589
ruffle1601
sargon1601
sargus1605
sea-liver1611
ruffe1647
silver-fish1703
porgy1725
brassem1731
red gilt-head1776
sparoid1842
panga1902
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 269/1 See breame a fysshe.
1613 R. Harcourt Relation Voy. Guiana 30 Of Sea-fish, there is Sea-breame, Mullet, Soale [etc.].
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. xi. 64 Thou saydst she had eyes of Pearles, and such eyes are rather the eies of a Sea-Breame then a faire Dames.
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 95 Sea Bream, which are plentifully taken upon the Sea Coasts, their Eyes are accounted rare Meat, whereupon the proverbial comparison, It is worth a Sea Breams Eye.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 253 The reddish Sparus.., The Sea-bream.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 297 Sparidæ (the Sea-bream Family).
1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. V. 347 The black sea-bream (Cantharus lineatus) of the British seas.
2. Applied to the coryphænoid genus Brama.
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sea-bream1710
toothed gilthead1776
breamflat1836
Ray's bream1836
pomfret1890
batfish1927
1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 53 Brama Marina nostras, the Sea-Bream.
1891 Cent. Dict.
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