dragonet
noun/ˈdɹæɡənɛt/
Etymology From Middle English dragonet, from Middle French dragonet. By surface analysis, dragon + -et.
1
A small dragon.
- in his wombe might lurke some hidden nest / Of many Dragonets, his fruitfull seed […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2
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
- high-finned dragonet, mandarin dragonet, ocellated dragonet, picturesque dragonet, scooter dragonet, slope dragonet, spotted dragonet
- Related terms
- Gobiidae