Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mullet

3 senses of mullet

Sense 1
mullet, grey mullet, gray mullet -- (highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet)
       => fish -- (the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish")

Sense 2
mullet, grey mullet, gray mullet -- (freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide)
       => percoid fish, percoid, percoidean -- (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Sense 3
mullet -- (bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin)
       => percoid fish, percoid, percoidean -- (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
       => bottom-feeder, bottom-dweller -- (a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water)