dragonet

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A dragonet (Synchiropus splendidus).

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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.

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