dragonet

drag·on·et

D0377100 (drăg′ə-nĭt)n. Any of various small, often brightly colored marine fishes of the family Callionymidae, having a slender body and a flattened head with large eyes.

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[Middle English, young dragon, from Old French, diminutive of dragon, dragon; see dragon.]

dragonet

(ˈdræɡənɪt) n (Animals) any small spiny-finned fish of the family Callionymidae, having a flat head and a slender tapering brightly coloured body and living at the bottom of shallow seas[C14 (meaning: small dragon): from French; applied to fish C18]

drag•on•et

(ˌdræg əˈnɛt, ˈdræg ə nɪt)

n. any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usu. brightly colored. [1300–50; Middle English < Middle French; see dragon, -et]

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dragonet - small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and Americaacanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible raysCallionymidae, family Callionymidae - dragonets