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grey mullet

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noun

  1. US name: mullet.  any teleost food fish of the family Mugilidae, mostly occurring in coastal regions, having a spindle-shaped body and a broad fleshy mouth Compare red mullet

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I like to use sea bream but you can also use grey mullet, or pike if you happen to catch one.

From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2014

Seeing some fine big fellows swimming about in a deep hole is a great temptation, especially when you know they are grey mullet, and the chef de cuisine is short of the wherewithal for dinner.

From Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

He only demanded in addition a few of those delicious grey mullet which are caught around the solitary mount.

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various

Turbot, salmon, salmon trout, Berwick and fresh water trout, red and grey mullet, Johndories, skate, thornback, maids, soles, flounders, eels, lobsters, crawfish, prawns, and shrimps.

From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

The grey mullet, the bream—a fish much resembling in general appearance the English pike—and several others, are excellent eating.

From Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland by Byerley, Frederick, J.

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