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# mullet

«mullet» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sea fish with a grey or brown body, eaten as food** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural mullets)

### meaning for a pupil

A mullet is a sea fish with a grey or brown body, eaten as food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mullet/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a fisherman catches fish such as mullets in his net; the word names a kind of fish

### examples

- "Fine mullets, these!" he said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mullet/#x1)
- He pulled a handful of mullets from the net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mullet/#x2)
- We ate grilled mullet for supper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mullet/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; each mullet is one fish, so a count of them is just a count of fish caught.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mullet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mullet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.