Home › Words › C › crestfishcrestfishcrestfish means any of the fish in the lampriform family Lophotidae.EtymologyFrom crest + fish, because of the crest (part of the dorsal fin) that emerges from the snout and head.nounAny of the fish in the lampriform family Lophotidae.e.g.“Family Lophotidae — Crestfishes” — 1956, Bulletin of the Florida State Museum: Biological sciences:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.bandfish 66% match — Any of many perciform fish of the family Cepolidae vs crestfish →chinafish 65% match — Any of several fish of the family Ophicephalidae or of the genus Sebastodes vs crestfish →percophid 65% match — Any fish in the family Percophidae. vs crestfish →finfish 63% match — Any fish, but especially fish other than flatfish vs crestfish →codlet 63% match — Any fish from the family Bregmacerotidae, which resemble small cod. vs crestfish →jobfish 63% match — Any of various fishes of the family Lutjanidae. vs crestfish →creamfish 63% match — Synonym of smooth leatherjacket. vs crestfish →goosefish 62% match — Any anglerfish of the family Lophiidae. vs crestfish →