mugiln.
/ˈmjuːdʒᵻl/, U.S. /ˈmjudʒ(ə)l/ Originally: a grey mullet. Now only (in form Mugil): the type genus of the family Mugilidae, comprising the grey mullets.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Systema Naturæ (ed. 10, 1758) I. 316.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 161 A manere fysshe þat hat mugil is ful quyuer and swifte.
1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 203 In an other kynde of fysshe, called a mugyll, and also in ye ele, neuer man myght discerne ony male or female.
1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes ii. ii. sig. B4 It is thought wonderful among the sea men, that Mugil of all fishes the swifteste is found in the belly of the Bret of all the slowest.
1685 Minute 3 June in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1757) IV. 404 An extract of a letter of Mons. Villermont..was read, mentioning..the mugil or cephalo.
1773 J. R. Forster Resol. Jrnl. 21 May (1982) II. 283 We got..two new fish; One a Scomber, the other a Mugil.
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Mugil, Silvery Grey,..common name for the Mugil cephalus.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 270/2 Some species of Mugil..have representatives in both hemispheres.
1994 J. S. Nelson Fishes of World (ed. 3) 255 Over half the species [of mullets] are placed in Liza and Mugil.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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