red mullet

Questions about red mullet

What does red mullet mean?

red mullet means "brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels".

What is another word for red mullet?

Close synonyms include goatfish, surmullet, Mullus surmuletus. 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 mullet a common word?

red mullet 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.