dragonet

English

A dragonet (Synchiropus splendidus)

Etymology

dragon +‎ -et

Pronunciation

enPR: drăg'ən, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹæɡənɛt/

Noun

dragonet (plural dragonets)

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

French: dragonnet (fr) m, dragonnette f

fish of the family Callionymidae

Bulgarian: морска мишка f (morska miška)
Finnish: merikokki (Callionymidae); louhikokki (Draconettidae)
Galician: escorpión (gl) m, esganagatos m
Greek: δράκαινα (el) f (drákaina)
Italian: dragonetto

See also

Gobiidae

Anagrams

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