Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the family Mullidæ; specifically, Mullus surmuletus, one of the choicest food-fishes of the Mediterranean (anciently the mullus, of gastronomic renown), red in color with three yellow longitudinal stripes. The red or plain surmullet of Europe is M. barbatus. See
mullet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of various species of mullets of the family
Millidæ , esp. the European species (Millus surmulletus ), which is highly prized as a food fish. Seemullet .
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- noun A
mullet in the family Mullidae.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of sea substances, the surmullet, the blacktail, the mullet, and the eel; for these are the fishes most to be guarded against.
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It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste (the liver of which, prepared by itself, was most delicious), and fillets of the emperor-holocanthus, the savour of which seemed to me superior even to salmon.
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Seius gave for the nightingale the command of a quantity of labour and subsistence equal to what 66l. 13s. 4d. would purchase in the present simes, and Asinius Celer gave for the surmullet the command of a quantity equal to what 88l. 17s. 9d. 1/3 would purchase.
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It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866
hernesheir commented on the word surmullet
That's Sir Mullet to YOU.
July 20, 2010