| 单词 | black mullet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack mullet black mullet n. (a) a dark mullet of the genus Mugil; esp. (U.S.) the flathead mullet, M. cephalus; (b) U.S. the northern kingfish, Menticirrhus nebulosus (family Sciaenidae). ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Mugil Niger, the black Mullet, a name given by authors to a fish of the Mullet kind, but all over black, more usually known by the name of the portius piscis. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 123 The King-Fish,..also known as..the ‘Black Mullet’ in the Chesapeake. 1915 National Geographic Mag. Aug. 168/2 These resembled the black mullet and were fairly edible, proving, however, of greater service in baiting the traps and the flashlight machines. 2009 Miami Herald (Nexis) 8 Nov. d9 By mid-October, the coastline is literally black with huge schools of black mullet, with large tarpon in tow. < as lemmas |
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