'Gray mullet' definitions:
Definition of 'gray mullet'
From: WordNet
noun
Highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet [syn: mullet, grey mullet, gray mullet]
noun
Freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide [syn: mullet, grey mullet, gray mullet]
Definition of 'Gray mullet'
From: GCIDE
- Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), a. [Compar. Grayer; superl. Grayest.] [OE. gray, grey, AS. gr[=ae]g, gr[=e]g; akin to D. graauw, OHG. gr[=a]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[*a], Icel. gr[=a]r.] [Written also grey.]
- 1. any color of neutral hue between white and black; white mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove. [1913 Webster]
- These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. -- Ames. [1913 Webster]
- 4. gloomy; dismal. [PJC]
- Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite.
- Gray buck (Zool.), the chickara.
- Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite.
- Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite.
- Gray duck (Zool.), the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard.
- Gray falcon (Zool.) the peregrine falcon.
- Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar.
- Gray hen (Zool.), the female of the blackcock or black grouse. See Heath grouse.
- Gray mill or Gray millet (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell.
- Gray mullet (Zool.) any one of the numerous species of the genus Mugil, or family Mugilid[ae], found both in the Old World and America; as the European species (Mugilid[ae] capito, and Mugilid[ae] auratus), the American striped mullet (Mugilid[ae] albula), and the white or silver mullet (Mugilid[ae] Braziliensis). See Mullet.
- Gray owl (Zool.), the European tawny or brown owl ({Syrnium aluco}). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) inhabits arctic America.
- Gray parrot (Zool.), an African parrot ({Psittacus erithacus}), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk. Also called jako.
- Gray pike. (Zool.) See Sauger.
- Gray snapper (Zool.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See Snapper.
- Gray snipe (Zool.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
- Gray whale (Zool.), a rather large and swift whale of the northern Pacific (Eschrichtius robustus, formerly Rhachianectes glaucus), having short jaws and no dorsal fin. It grows to a length of 50 feet (someimes 60 feet). It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of California, and is now rare; -- called also grayback, devilfish, and hardhead. It lives up to 50 or 60 years and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons. [1913 Webster]