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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See goatfish.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fish of the family Mullidæ; specifically, Mullus surmuletus, one of the choicest food-fishes of the Mediterranean (anciently the mullus, of gastronomic renown), red in color with three yellow longitudinal stripes. The red or plain surmullet of Europe is M. barbatus. See mullet.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A mullet in the family Mullidae.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) Any one of various species of mullets of the family Millidæ, esp. the European species (Millus surmulletus), which is highly prized as a food fish. See mullet.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels

Etymologies

  1. French surmulet, from Middle French sormulet, from sor ("reddish brown") + mulet ("mullet"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French surmulet, from Old French sormulet : probably sor, reddish brown (of Germanic origin) + mulet, mullet; see mullet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Of sea substances, the surmullet, the blacktail, the mullet, and the eel; for these are the fishes most to be guarded against.”

    On The Sacred Disease

  • “It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste (the liver of which, prepared by itself, was most delicious), and fillets of the emperor-holocanthus, the savour of which seemed to me superior even to salmon.”

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

  • “Seius gave for the nightingale the command of a quantity of labour and subsistence equal to what 66l. 13s. 4d. would purchase in the present simes, and Asinius Celer gave for the surmullet the command of a quantity equal to what 88l. 17s. 9d. 1/3 would purchase.”

    XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land

  • “It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste”

    Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English

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synonyms (1)

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  1. goatfish

hypernyms (1)

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  1. mullet

hyponyms (4)

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  1. yellow goatfish
  1. red goatfish
  1. mullus auratus
  1. mulloidichthys martinicus

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  1. mullet
  1. goatfish
  1. mullus
  1. mulloid
  1. red mullet
  1. surmullet

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  • hernesheir That's Sir Mullet to YOU. Jul 19, 2010

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