dragonet
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A dragonet (Synchiropus splendidus).
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dragonet (plural dragonets)
- 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 […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- 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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