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Dragonet vs Dragnet - What's the difference?

dragonet | dragnet |

As nouns the difference between dragonet and dragnet

is that dragonet is a small dragon while dragnet is a net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.

As a verb dragnet is

to make heightened efforts to catch a suspect.

dragonet

English

(wikipedia dragonet) (Callionymidae)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 [...].
  • Any of the small perciform marine fish of the family (taxlink) found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific, the family containing approximately 186 species in 18 genera.

    • Derived terms

    * (mandarin fish) * * * spotted dragonet

    See also

    * (taxlink) * (taxlink)

    dragnet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
  • Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.
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    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect.

    • Anagrams

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