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Definition of Red mullet
1. Noun. Brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels.
Generic synonyms: Mullet
Group relationships: Genus Mullus, Mullus
Specialized synonyms: Mullus Auratus, Red Goatfish, Mulloidichthys Martinicus, Yellow Goatfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Mullet
Literary usage of Red mullet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"THE STRIPED red mullet. The striped red mullet, a beautiful fish of a pale pink
color, but somewhat larger than the one known to the Romans, ..."
2. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1875)
"THE STRIPED red mullet. The striped red mullet, a beautiful fish of a palp pink
color, but somewhat larger than the one known ..."
3. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"... the middle may be boiled and the fins fried. They should be dipped in egg,
and covered with crums. red mullet. It is called the sea-woodcock. ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"The STRIPED S., or STRIPED red mullet (M. surmuletus), is sometimes very plentiful
on the southern coasts of England, but is rarer towards the north. ..."
5. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy, and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1840)
"red mullet. It is called the Sea-Woodcock. Clean, but leave the inside, fold in
oiled paper, and gently bake in a small dish. Make a sauce of the liquor ..."
6. The Life-histories of the British Marine Food-fishes by William Carmichael M'Intosh, Arthur Thomas Masterman (1897)
"... in front of the vent, and some chromatophores have appeared in the marginal
fin dorsally and ventrally. The red mullet-Family. Mullidae. THE red mullet. ..."
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