dragonet

Meanings

Plural: dragonets

Noun

• small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America
• A small dragon.
• 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.

Synonyms

dragonette, dragonlet, dragonling

Related Words

Gobiidae