dragonet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any small, often brightly colored, scaleless bottom-dwelling marine fish of the family Callionymidae

   The gemmeous dragonet displayed its elongated dorsal fin above the seabed.

2. 2
   noun

   a small or young dragon, especially in older or fantasy writing

   A tiny dragonet curled around the jeweled tower in the illustration.

From Middle English and Middle French dragonet, a diminutive of dragon. The older sense is a little dragon; naturalists later transferred the name to small marine fishes, including the gemmeous dragonet, Callionymus lyra.

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