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noun
Any fish in the family Mullidae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Synonyms: goatfish, mullet, red mullet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fish, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature
History
By surface analysis, an appellativization from Mullid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names), or, by surface analysis, Latin mull(us) (“red mullet”) + -id.
