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Webster 1913 Edition
Dragonet
Drag′on-et
,Noun.
1.
A little dragon.
Spenser.
2.
(Zool.)
A small British marine fish (
Callionymuslyra
); – called also yellow sculpin
, fox
, and gowdie
. Webster 1828 Edition
Dragonet
DRAGONET
,Noun.
1.
A little dragon.2.
A fish with a slender round body, colored with yellow, blue and white; the head is large and depressed at the top and has two orifices, through which it breathes and ejects water, like the cetaceous tribe.Definition 2024
dragonet
dragonet
English
Noun
dragonet (plural dragonets)
- 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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- 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
Translations
fish of the family Callionymidae
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