? The fish called Sea-bream: ‘perhaps from its supposed habit, mentioned by Pliny, of accompanying the balæna or whale’ (Riley Gloss. to Lib. Custum.…

A name applied to several sparoid fishes, esp. Pagellus centrodontus.

Any of various mostly deep-bodied edible marine fishes, spec. (a) a wrasse; (b) the alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus; (c) the menhaden, Brevoortia ty…

Any of various edible, deep-bodied fishes of the sea bream family Sparidae. Also: any of various snappers of the family Lutjanidae. Cf. porgy, n.

A fish of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic (perhaps the black sea bream, Spondyliosoma cantharus).

= sargus, n.

A fish of the genus Sargus, the type of the family Sparidæ, the sea-breams.

(see quots.).

A sea bream or other sparid marine fish. Cf. sea-ruff n. at sea, n. compounds 6d, ruffle, n.3 Obsolete.

One of various silver-coloured fishes found in different parts of the world.

Any of various deep-bodied fishes of the sea bream family Sparidae, chiefly of warm coastal waters, typically silvery in colour, but sometimes…

A kind of fish; ? a sea-bream.

the red sea bream, Pagellus bogaraveo.

A fish of this family.

South African. Either of two marine fishes: (a) a reddish sea bream, Pterogymnus laniarius (family Sparidae), a common food fish confined to South…