noun, masculine/ba.tɔ.nɛ/plural: bâtonnets
bâtonnet is masculine in French.
small stick; batonnet (piece of vegetable cut into the shape of a small stick); rod cell (any of the cylindrical photoreceptor cells in the retina that function in dim light levels)
“des bâtonnets de poisson” — fish finger
Inherited from Old French bastonet. By surface analysis, bâton + -et.