Snapper vs Bream - What's the difference?
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One who, or that which, snaps.
Any of approximately 100 different species of fish.
# (Australia, New Zealand) The fish , especially an adult of the species.
# (US) Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
(Ireland, slang) A (human) baby.
(American football) The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
(US) Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
(slang) One who takes snaps; a photographer.
(US, informal) The snapping turtle.
The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
A snap beetle.
A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis , little valued as food. Several species are known.
(British) A species in that genus, Abramis brama .
An American fresh-water fish, of various species of and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus , and allied genera. See sea bream.
(nautical) To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.
As nouns the difference between snapper and bream
is that snapper is one who, or that which, snaps while bream is a European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.As a verb bream is
to clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.snapper
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Alternative forms
* schnapper (fish)Noun
(en noun)- a snapper -up of trifles
- the snapper of a whip
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Hyponyms
* (adolescent), squire (pre-adult)1990''', Richard Allan, ''Australian Fish and How to Catch Them'', ISBN 1-86302-674-6, page 309.''“Snapper”'', entry in '''1966 , ''An Encyclopedia of New Zealand .