different between dragonet vs dragnet

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

dragon +? -et

Noun

dragonet (plural dragonets)

1. A small dragon.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     in his wombe might lurke some hidden nest / Of many Dragonets, his fruitfull seed […]

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.

Derived terms

• mandarin dragonet (Synchiropus splendidus)
• ocellated dragonet (Neosynchiropus ocellatus)
• psychedelic mandarin dragonet
• scooter dragonet (Neosynchiropus ocellatus)
• slope dragonet (of family Draconettidae)
• spotted dragonet (Callionymus maculatus)

Translations

See also

• Gobiidae

Anagrams

• derogant

English

Etymology

From drag +? net, probably based on the model of Middle English draynet, dreynett (“dragnet”), Old English dræ?net, dræ?nett, equivalent to dray +? net.

Noun

dragnet (plural dragnets)

1. (fishing) A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
2. (law enforcement) Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.

Translations

Verb

dragnet (third-person singular simple present dragnets, present participle dragnetting, simple past and past participle dragnetted)

1. (fishing) To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water.
2. (law enforcement) To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect.

Anagrams

• granted