Home › Words › P › parrotfishparrotfishparrotfish · noun — any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, parrotfish ranks #16,996 of 43,030 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom parrot + fish.nounAny of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.scarus 74% match — A parrotfish, a Mediterranean food fish (any of various Scaridae species). vs parrotfish →scarine 60% match — Any fish of the subfamily Scarinae vs parrotfish →beakfish 58% match — Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae. vs parrotfish →marblefish 58% match — Any of the family Aplodactylidae of perciform fishes. vs parrotfish →coralfish 57% match — Certain fish of the butterflyfish family (Chaetodontidae spp.). vs parrotfish →carapid 57% match — Any fish in the family Carapidae; a pearlfish. vs parrotfish →parodontid 56% match — Any fish in the family Parodontidae. vs parrotfish →butterflyfish 55% match — Any of a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and coralfish are also included in this group. Butterflyfish are fairly small, mostly from 12 to 22 cm (c.7-9 in) in length. vs parrotfish →