mugilidn.adj.
/ˈmjuːdʒᵻlɪd/, U.S. /ˈmjudʒəˌlɪd/ Zoology.
A. n.
A fish of the family Mugilidae, a grey mullet.
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1904 Science 9 Sept. 329/1 Gray mullets or mugilids..are among the most common of the shore fishes from Woods Hole southward.
1951 Jrnl. Ichthyol. 1 240 (caption) Lateral..and upper..side views of the cranium in five species of mugilids.
1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 247 In Europe the mugilids are often known as gray mullets to differentiate them from the red mullets, surmullets, or goatfishes of the family Mullidae.
1994 J. S. Nelson Fishes of World (ed. 3) 254 The present view of the mugilids as being related to the Atherinomorpha follows Stiassny.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the family Mugilidae.
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1946 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 96 382 The remaining genera of mugilid fishes appear to have two general lines of specialization, which could have arisen from a mugilid stock.
1992 Indian Zoologist 16 5 (title) Functional morphology of the corpuscles of Stannius in the mugilid teleost, Mugil saliens (Risso) from Caspian Sea.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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