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Mullidae

noun

goatfishes or red mullets

• Syn: ↑family Mullidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi

• Member Meronyms: ↑mullet, ↑Mullus, ↑genus Mullus, ↑Mulloidichthys, ↑genus Mulloidichthys

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\\-ləˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Mullus, type genus + -idae

: a family of percoid fishes consisting of the red mullets

Useful english dictionary. 2012.