dragonet

From Middle English dragonet, from Middle French dragonet.^[1] By surface analysis, dragon +‎ -et.

• enPR: drăg'ən, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹæɡənɛt/

dragonet (plural dragonets)

1. A small dragon.

   Synonyms: dragonette, dragonlet, dragonling

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     in his wombe might lurke some hidden nest / Of many Dragonets, his fruitfull seed […]

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.

• Gobiidae

• derogant