Wiktionary
n. Any of several long, slender fishes, of the family ''(taxlink Stomiatidae family noshow=1)'', that have a luminous barbel that is used to attract prey.
Wikipedia
The common name dragonfish may refer to several unrelated groups of fish:
- Barbeled dragonfish, small bioluminescent deep-sea stomiiform fish of the family Stomiidae
- Several species of seamoths, small gasterosteiform fish of the family Pegasidae
- The "dragonets" of family Callionymidae
- Violet goby, an eel-like brackish-water fish, also known as a dragon goby or dragonfish
- The Senegal bichir, Polypterus senegalus, of the Polypteridae family
- Asian arowana, a bonytongue fish often called "dragonfish" due to its resemblance to a Chinese dragon
Dragonfish may also refer to:
- Dragonfish (novel), the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese-American writer, Vu Tran.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the dragonfish is a type of magical beast.
Usage examples of "dragonfish".
Burton assumed, had been removed from a dragonfish and set within the scarlet gums.
The schooner was sunk by a dragonfish while we were helping some locals fish for it.
The sails were made of treated outer skin of the dragonfish, so thin they were translucent.
That had cost Rumania several boatloads of tobacco and booze and piles of dragonfish and hornfish skins and bones.
The mast was only thirty feet high, but the sail, made from dragonfish membrane, stretched forty feet across.
Clad in dragonfish leather and armed with two short swords, he no longer looked the man of peace.
Instantly, a dozen tongues of fire licked at the wood frame and dragonfish membrane.
Fitted with a string from the gut of the dragonfish, this made a bow that only a very powerful man could fully draw.
Staring at the dragonfish in its spherical tank, she poured herself a tumbler of Sarakkonian brandy, drank deeply of it, wondering if Courion had drunk from that very tumbler.
Rex had removed from storage the envelope of a small airship made from the intestinal linings of dragonfish over two years ago.
Lumpeyins are apparently bioluminescent like the dinoflagellates, black dragonfish, fireflies, and many other organisms on Earth.
The fifth building held a variety of artifacts: boxes of oak rings fpr trading, spiral bones and the unicornlike horns of the hornfish, piles of fish and human-leather, drums, bamboo flutes, harps with hornfish guts for strings, skulls fashioned into drinking cups, ropes of fiber and fish-skin, piles of dried dragonfish intestines, suitable for sails, stone lamps for burning fish-oil, boxes of lipstick, face-paint, marijuana, cigarettes , cigars, lighters (all doubtless saved up for trading or tribute), about fifty ritual masks, and many more items.