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dragonets

dragonets is the plural of dragonet.

Meaning of dragonet

Noun

dragonet (plural dragonets)

  1. A small dragon.
    • in his wombe might lurke some hidden nest / Of many Dragonets, his fruitfull seed […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  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.

Phrases with dragonets

Questions about dragonets

What is dragonets the plural of?
Dragonets is the plural of dragonet.

Words near dragonets in the dictionary

  1. Dragones
  2. dragonesque
  3. dragoness
  4. dragonesses
  5. dragonet
  6. dragonets
  7. dragonette
  8. dragonettes
  9. dragonewt
  10. dragonewts
  11. dragonfire

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