Definition of "dragonet"

dragonet

/ˈdɹæɡənɛt/

noun
plural dragonets
1. A small dragon.
  Quotations
  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
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.