noun
Meaning 1
A small dragon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dragling, dragonette, dragonlet, dragonling, drakelet
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dragonet
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drăg'ən
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/ˈdɹæɡənɛt/
noun
Meaning 2
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
History
Etymology
From Middle English dragonet, from Middle French dragonet. By surface analysis, dragon + -et.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: dráček — small dragon
- French: dragonnet — small dragon
- French: dragonnette — small dragon
- Polish: smoczek — small dragon
- Bulgarian: морска мишка (morska miška) — fish of the family Callionymidae
- Finnish: merikokki — fish of the family Callionymidae
- Finnish: louhikokki — fish of the family Callionymidae
- Galician: escorpión — fish of the family Callionymidae
- Galician: esganagatos — fish of the family Callionymidae
- German: Leierfisch — fish of the family Callionymidae
- Greek: δράκαινα (drákaina) — fish of the family Callionymidae
- Irish: iascán nimhe — fish of the family Callionymidae
- Italian: dragonetto — fish of the family Callionymidae
- Japanese: 鼠坊 (nezubo) — fish of the family Callionymidae
- Polish: mandaryn — fish of the family Callionymidae