dragonet

English

Wikispecies

A dragonet ()

Etymology

dragon +‎ -et

Pronunciation

• enPR: drăg'ən, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹæɡənɛt/

Noun

dragonet (plural dragonets)

1. A small dragon.
   • 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 […]

2. Any of the small perciform marine fish of the families Callionymidae and (slope dragonets) found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific, the family containing approximately 186 species in 18 genera.

Derived terms

• mandarin dragonet ()
• ocellated dragonet ()
• psychedelic mandarin dragonet
• scooter dragonet ()
• slope dragonet (of family )
• spotted dragonet ()

Translations

fish of the family Callionymidae

• Bulgarian: морска мишка f (morska miška)
• Finnish: merikokki (Callionymidae); louhikokki (Draconettidae)
• Greek: δράκαινα (el) f (drákaina)
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• Italian: dragonetto

See also

• Gobiidae

Anagrams

• derogant