bream

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɹiːm/    美 /bɹɪm/|/bɹim/|/bɹɛm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
  2. A species in that genus, Abramis brama. UK
  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.
动词 v.
  1. To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.

词形变化

bream plural breams plural breams present,singular,third-person breaming participle,present breamed participle,past breamed past

词汇关系

衍生词
black bream bony bream breamlike carp bream gilt-head bream seabream sea bream silver bream white bream

词源

词源 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 *brahsmō (whence Old High German brahsma, brahsmo, brahsina, brehsina (whence German Brasse, Brachse (“bream”))), from Proto-Germanic *brahsmô, *brahsinō, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerek- (“to shine”) (see braid (verb)).
词源 2
Compare broom, and German brennen (as in ein Schiff brennen).
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