red goatfish

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   body bright scarlet with 2 yellow to reddish strips on side

   SynonymsMullus auratus

   Broadergoatfish

   Part ofMullus

Questions about red goatfish

What does red goatfish mean?

red goatfish means "body bright scarlet with 2 yellow to reddish strips on side".

What is another word for red goatfish?

Close synonyms include Mullus auratus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is red goatfish a common word?

red goatfish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.