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

Derived forms: grey mullets

Type of: fish, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

Part of: family Mugilidae, Mugilidae

Encyclopedia: Grey mullet