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Brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels
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surmullet
Word definitions for surmullet in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels [syn: goatfish , red mullet , Mullus surmuletus ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A (vern: red mullet), (taxlink Mullus surmuletus species noshow=1).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mullet \Mul"let\, n. [OE. molet, mulet, F. mulet, fr. L. mullus.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous fishes of the genus Mugil; -- called also gray mullets . They are found on the coasts of both continents, and are highly esteemed as food. Among the most valuable ...
Usage examples of surmullet.
I met a large party at his house the other day, and beheld dory and surmullet, champagne and lachryma Christi, amid all the glory of the Whitford plate .
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.
It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawksbills, of a surmullet served with puff paste (the liver of which, prepared by itself, was most delicious), and fillets of the emperor-holocanthus, the savor of which seemed to me superior even to salmon.