surmullet

(sɜːˈmʌlɪt)

(Animals) a US name for the red mullet

[C17: from French sormulet, from sor brown + mullet]

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surmullet - brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels

goatfish, Mullus surmuletus, red mullet

mullet - bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin

genus Mullus, Mullus - type genus of the Mullidae: goatfishes

Mullus auratus, red goatfish - body bright scarlet with 2 yellow to reddish strips on side

Mulloidichthys martinicus, yellow goatfish - schooling goatfish; greyish with yellow stripe

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

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266), and that for a surmullet 80 [pounds sterling], while the assertion that 'no meal cost Vitellius less than 2000 [pounds sterling]' (Rae 1834, p.