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Noun: gray mullet  grey'mú-lit
Usage: US (elsewhere: grey mullet)
  1. Freshwater or coastal food fishes with a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide
    "Gray mullet are often used in Mediterranean cuisine";
    - mullet, grey mullet [Brit, Cdn]
     
  2. Highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet
    "We grilled some fresh gray mullet for dinner";
    - mullet, grey mullet [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: gray mullets

Type of: fish, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

Part of: family Mugilidae, Mugilidae

Encyclopedia: Gray mullet