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DRAGONET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dragonet mean?
• DRAGONET (noun)
The noun DRAGONET has 1 sense:
1. small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America
Familiarity information: DRAGONET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("dragonet" is a kind of...):
acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)
Holonyms ("dragonet" is a member of...):
Callionymidae; family Callionymidae (dragonets)
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