red mullet

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red′ mul′let, 

1. Fish a goatfish or surmullet.

• 1755–65

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red mullet noun

1. any of the marine percoid fishes constituting the family Mullidae, esp Mullus surmuletus, a food fish of European waters. They have a pair of long barbels beneath the chin and a reddish coloration
   US name: goatfish