noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A small dragon.

   "in his wombe might lurke some hidden nest / Of many Dragonets, his fruitfull seed […]"

2. 2
   small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America wordnet
3. 3
   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.

Synonyms

All synonyms

dragonettedragonletdragonling

Example

More examples

"in his wombe might lurke some hidden nest / Of many Dragonets, his fruitfull seed […]"

Etymology

From dragon + -et.

Related phrases

high-finned dragonetmandarin dragonetocellated dragonetpicturesque dragonetscooter dragonetslope dragonetspotted dragonet

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