freshwater : Idioms & Phrases


freshwater bass

  • noun any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
    bass.
  • noun North American food and game fish
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freshwater bream

  • noun flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe
    bream.
  • noun any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis
    bream.
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freshwater clam

  • noun bivalve mollusk abundant in rivers of central United States
    freshwater clam.
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freshwater cordgrass

  • noun North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns
    slough grass; Spartina pectinmata; prairie cordgrass.
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freshwater eel

  • noun eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
    common eel.
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freshwater fish

  • noun flesh of fish from fresh water used as food
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freshwater limpet

  • noun minute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants
    river limpet; Ancylus fluviatilis.
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freshwater mussel

  • noun bivalve mollusk abundant in rivers of central United States
    freshwater clam.
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