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A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.

ommon European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.

A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.

The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.

See Bream.

mis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.

The sea bream. [Prov. Eng. or Irish] Gunner's daughter, the gun to which men or boys were lashed for punishment. [Sailor's slang] W. C. Russell.

A marine fish; the sea bream.

The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).

America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.

e Sparidæ, a family of spinous-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea bream. -- n.

. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.

An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chænobryttus gulosus); -- called also red-eyed bream.

A European bream (Abramis vimba). [Written also zaerthe.]

A European fresh-water bream (Abramis ballerus).