GREY MULLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grey mullet mean? 

• GREY MULLET (noun)
  The noun GREY MULLET has 2 senses:

1. highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet

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

  Familiarity information: GREY MULLET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREY 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 ("grey mullet" is a kind of...):

fish (the flesh of fish used as food)

Holonyms ("grey 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 ("grey mullet" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Meronyms (parts of "grey mullet"):

gray mullet; grey mullet; mullet (highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grey 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 ("grey mullet" is a member of...):

family Mugilidae; Mugilidae (grey mullets)