different between bream vs sunperch

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English breme, from Old French breme, bresme, braisme, brasme (whence French brème), from Frankish *brahsma, *brahsima (whence Dutch brasem), from Proto-West Germanic *brahsm? (whence Old High German brahsma, brahsmo, brahsina, brehsina (whence German Brasse, Brachse (“bream”))), from Proto-Germanic *brahsm?, *brahsin?, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erek- (“to shine”) (see braid (verb)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?i?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m
• (US) IPA^(key): /b??m/, /b?im/
• Rhymes: -?m
• Homophone: brim

Noun

bream (plural bream or breams)

1. A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
2. (Britain) A species in that genus, Abramis brama.

   Synonym: carp bream

3. An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
4. A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.

Derived terms

• carp bream
• seabream
• silver bream
• white bream

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare broom, and German brennen (as in ein Schiff brennen).

Verb

bream (third-person singular simple present breams, present participle breaming, simple past and past participle breamed)

1. (nautical) To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.

Anagrams

• Amber, Brame, amber, bemar, brame, embar

English

Etymology

sun +? perch

Noun

sunperch (plural sunperches or sunperch)

1. (US) Regional name for any of various North American sunfish caught as panfish.

   • All Bill caught were two smallish sunperch, barely worth the effort to clean and cook.

Synonyms

• bluegill
• bream
• pumpkinseed

Anagrams

• crush pen, punchers