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Answer for the clue "Mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays ", 9 letters:
threadfin

Word definitions for threadfin in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of many perciform fish of the family ''(taxlink Polynemidae family noshow=1)''

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Threadfin \Thread"fin`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Threadfins are silvery grey perciform marine fish of the family Polynemidae . Found in tropical to subtropical waters throughout the world, the threadfin family contains nine genera and 33 species . An unrelated species sometimes known by the name threadfin, ...

Usage examples of threadfin.

Lead oarsmen who set the stroke, and they wear red bandanas and have red ribbons around their oar handles, and in Shanghai they also add a delicious threadfin called 'horse-friend-gentleman-fish,' which is —"