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Red mullet   /rɛd mˈələt/   Listen
Red mullet

noun
1.
Brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels.  Synonyms: goatfish, Mullus surmuletus, surmullet.






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"Red mullet" Quotes from Famous Books



... capacity of mere mortals can enable even an alderman really to eat. There fell to my lot three delectable things enough, which I take pains to remember, that the reader may not go away wholly unsatisfied from the Barmecide feast to which I have bidden him,—a red mullet, a plate of mushrooms, exquisitely stewed, and part of a ptarmigan, a bird of the same family as the grouse, but feeding high up towards the summit of the Scotch mountains, whence it gets a wild delicacy of flavor very superior to that of the artificially nurtured English game-fowl. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, August, 1863, No. 70 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various



Words linked to "Red mullet" :   Mullus surmuletus, yellow goatfish, Mullus, mullet, genus Mullus, Mullus auratus, Mulloidichthys martinicus, red goatfish, surmullet



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