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. See mullet.

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  • noun A mullet in the family Mullidae.

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  • noun brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels

Etymologies

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French surmulet, from Middle French sormulet, from sor ("reddish brown") + mulet ("mullet").

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Examples

  • Of sea substances, the surmullet, the blacktail, the mullet, and the eel; for these are the fishes most to be guarded against.

    On The Sacred Disease 2007

  • 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.

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • 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.

    XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land 1909

  • 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

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  • That's Sir Mullet to YOU.

    July 20, 2010