dragonet
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- enPR: drăg'ən, IPA(key): /ˈdɹæɡənɛt/
Noun
dragonet (plural dragonets)
- (fantasy) A small dragon.
- Synonyms: dragonette, dragonlet, dragonling
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- in his wombe might lurke some hidden nest / Of many Dragonets, his fruitfull seed […]
- Any of the small perciform marine fish of the families Callionymidae and Draconettidae (slope dragonets) found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific, the family containing approximately 186 species in 18 genera.
Derived terms
Translations
small dragon
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fish of the family Callionymidae