dragonet

dragonet

English

Wikispecies

A dragonet (Synchiropus splendidus).

Etymology

dragon +‎ -et

Noun

dragonet (plural dragonets)

1. A small dragon.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

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

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

Derived terms

• mandarin dragonet (mandarin fish)
• ocellated dragonet
• psychedelic mandarin dragonet
• spotted dragonet
• slope dragonet (Draconettidae)

Translations

fish of the family Callionymidae

Finnish: merikokki Greek: δράκαινα (el) f (drákaina)

Italian: dragonetto

See also

• Gobiidae

Anagrams

• derogant