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dragonet en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • drăg'ən
  • /ˈdɹæɡənɛt/

Etymology

From Middle English dragonet, from Middle French dragonet. By surface analysis, dragon + -et.

Meanings

  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.

Forms

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Deriveds

rough-headed dragonet · ocellated dragonet · picturesque dragonet · slope dragonet · scooter dragonet · mandarin dragonet · spotted dragonet · high-finned dragonet

Relateds

Gobiidae

Synonyms

dragonling · dragonette · drakelet · dragonlet · dragling

Translations (15)

it dragonetto (fish of the family Callionymidae) · fr dragonnette (small dragon) · gl escorpión (fish of the family Callionymidae) · cs dráček (small dragon) · el δράκαινα (fish of the family Callionymidae) · fi merikokki (fish of the family Callionymidae) · de Leierfisch (fish of the family Callionymidae) · fi louhikokki (fish of the family Callionymidae) · gl esganagatos (fish of the family Callionymidae) · ja 鼠坊 (fish of the family Callionymidae) · fr dragonnet (small dragon) · pl mandaryn (fish of the family Callionymidae) · ga iascán nimhe (fish of the family Callionymidae) · bg морска мишка (fish of the family Callionymidae) · pl smoczek (small dragon)