DRAGONET

dragonet

(noun) small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

dragonet (plural dragonets)

A small dragon.

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.

Anagrams

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Source: Wiktionary


Drag"on*et, n.

1. A little dragon. Spenser.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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