MULLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mullet mean? 

• MULLET (noun)
  The noun MULLET has 3 senses:

1. highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet

2. freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide

3. bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin

  Familiarity information: MULLET used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MULLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

gray mullet; grey mullet; mullet

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gray mullet; grey mullet; mullet

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:

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)

 Context examples 

“Argent,” Alleyne answered, “a fess azure charged with three lozenges dividing three mullets sable. Over all, on an escutcheon of the first, a jambe gules.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mutualisms are crucial everywhere in nature, but to our knowledge, the only comparable foraging partnership between wild animals and our own species involves free-living dolphins who chase schools of mullet into fishermen’s nets and in so doing manage to catch more for themselves.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Here were the gold mullets of the Pakingtons, the sable and ermine of the Mackworths, the scarlet bars of the Wakes, the gold and blue of the Grosvenors, the cinque-foils of the Cliftons, the annulets of the Musgraves, the silver pinions of the Beauchamps, the crosses of the Molineaux, the bloody chevron of the Woodhouses, the red and silver of the Worsleys, the swords of the Clarks, the boars'-heads of the Lucies, the crescents of the Boyntons, and the wolf and dagger of the Lipscombs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)