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Gray mullet   /greɪ mˈələt/   Listen
Gray mullet

noun
1.
Highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet.  Synonyms: grey mullet, mullet.
2.
Freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide.  Synonyms: grey mullet, mullet.






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"Gray mullet" Quotes from Famous Books



... sleeping fisherman is not awakened by the shock. Should he wish to land, it is merely because he has seen a large flight of landrails or plovers, of wild ducks, teal, widgeon, or woodchucks, which fall an easy pray to net or gun. Silver shad, eels, greedy pike, red and gray mullet, swim in shoals into his nets; he has but to choose the finest and largest, and return the others to the waters. Never yet has the food of the stranger, be he soldier or simple citizen, never has any one, indeed, penetrated into that district. The sun's rays there are ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere



Words linked to "Gray mullet" :   fish, white mullet, percoidean, Mugilidae, family Mugilidae, Mugil cephalus, Mugil curema, percoid, Mugil liza, grey mullet, percoid fish, liza, striped mullet



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