dragonet

/ˈdɹæɡənɛt/

Etymology

From Middle English dragonet, from Middle French dragonet. By surface analysis, dragon + -et.

noun

  1. A small dragon.“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.