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Definition of Surmullets
1. surmullet [n] - See also: surmullet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surmullets
Literary usage of Surmullets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"CHAPTER XXXV THE surmullets, THE CROAKERS AND THEIR RELATIVES HE ... surmullets)
are shore-fishes of the warm seas, of moderate size, with small mouth, ..."
2. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"CHAPTER XX THE surmullets, THE CROAKERS AND THEIR * RELATIVES HE ... Family
Mullido; (surmullets.) feeding chiefly on small animals. They are not voracious, ..."
3. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"Teeth rather strong, unequal, in one or 2 series in each jaw Upeneus, 270 GENUS
MULLUS The surmullets ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"It approaches the shores in summer, and many surmullets are then taken in mackerel
... They kept surmullets in their vivaria; but there the fish did not ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"It approaches the shores in summer, and many surmullets are then taken in mackerel
nets; but at other seasons it is only obtained from comparatively deep ..."
6. A Memoir of Jacques Cartier: Sieur de Limoilou, His Voyages to the St by James Phinney Baxter, Jean François de La Roque Roberval, Jean Alfonce (1906)
"... and Mullus surmuletus and barbatus,— and are not found in Canadian waters.
His mullets and surmullets were suckers of different varieties of the family ..."
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