porgy vs bream
bream vs porgyporgy and bream both are nouns.
porgy is not a verb while bream is a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| porgy | Yes | No | No | No |
| bream | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As nouns,
bream is a hypernym of
porgy; that is, bream is a
word with a broader meaning than porgy:
- porgy: important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide
- bream: any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
Other hypernyms of porgy include
sea bream.
| porgy (noun) | bream (noun) |
|---|---|
| important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide | any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis |
| lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States | any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae |
| flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae | |
| flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe |
| porgy (verb) | bream (verb) |
|---|---|
| clean (a ship's bottom) with heat |
Words related to "porgy"
Words related to "bream"
- Abramis brama
- Archosargus rhomboidalis
- Atlantic sea bream
- Brama raii
- Chrysophrys australis
- European bream
- European sea bream
- Lepomis macrochirus
- Lepomis punctatus
- Pagellus centrodontus
- Perciformes
- Percomorphi
- black bream
- bluegill
- bream
- centrarchid
- clean
- freshwater bream
- freshwater fish
- make clean
- order Perciformes
- order Percomorphi
- percoid
- percoid fish
- percoidean
- pomfret
- porgy
- saltwater fish
- sea bream
- spotted sunfish
- stumpknocker
- sunfish
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