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dragonet [ˈdrægənɪt] n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any small spiny-finned fish of the family Callionymidae, having a flat head and a slender tapering brightly coloured body and living at the bottom of shallow seas [C14 (meaning: small dragon): from French; applied to fish C18] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| 34) While the tree trunks twist themselves into hideous postures (rendered positively spectral by the Forest's ancestral antiquity (35)), the willow, the monarch of the valley, metamorphoses into a half-plant-like, half-human monster, pawing the air with its long-fingered hands, its roots transformed into dragonets (154). |
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