Crossword-Solution: DRAGONET 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The male Callionymus lyra has been called the gemmeous dragonet “from its brilliant gem-like colours.” When fresh caught from the sea the body is yellow of various shades, striped and spotted with vivid blue on the head; the dorsal fins are pale brown with dark longitudinal bands; the ventral, caudal, and anal fins being bluish-black.

The female, or sordid dragonet, was considered by Linnaeus, and by many subsequent naturalists, as a distinct species; it is of a dingy reddish-brown, with the dorsal fin brown and the other fins white.

Yarrel, W., on the habits of the Cyprinidae; on Raia clavata; on the characters of the male salmon during the breeding season; on the characters of the rays; on the gemmeous dragonet; on colours of salmon; on the spawning of the salmon; on the incubation of the Lophobranchii; on rivalry in song-birds; on the trachea of the swan; on the moulting of the Anatidae; on the young of the waders.

Another dragonet came hastily up to see what was the matter; but prudently made off again, and left the star-fish and his neighbour as they were.

The little page Dragonet sings outside a plaintive song with the refrain:-- "Que regrèt! Jamai digues toun secrèt." What regret! Never tell thy secret.