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MULLET

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mullet" is a kind of...):

bottom-dweller; bottom-feeder (a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water)

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mullet"):

goatfish; Mullus surmuletus; red mullet; surmullet (brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels)

Holonyms ("mullet" is a member of...):

family Mullidae; Mullidae (goatfishes or red mullets)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide

Synonyms:

gray mullet; grey mullet; mullet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mullet" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Meronyms (parts of "mullet"):

gray mullet; grey mullet; mullet (highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mullet"):

Mugil cephalus; striped mullet (most important commercial mullet in eastern United States)

Mugil curema; white mullet (silvery mullet of Atlantic and Pacific coasts)

liza; Mugil liza (similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region)

Holonyms ("mullet" is a member of...):

family Mugilidae; Mugilidae (grey mullets)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet

Synonyms:

gray mullet; grey mullet; mullet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("mullet" is a kind of...):

fish (the flesh of fish used as food)

Holonyms ("mullet" is a part of...):

gray mullet; grey mullet; mullet (freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide)

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