Home › Words › T › thornfishthornfishthornfish · noun — A group of fish in the order Perciformes, the family Bovichtidae.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, thornfish ranks #29,493 of 43,022 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom thorn + fish.nounA group of fish in the order Perciformes, the family Bovichtidae.A dragonet, any of the small perciform marine fish of the family Callionymidae.A jarbua terapon (Terapon jarbua).Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.bovichtid 63% match — Any fish of the family Bovichtidae. vs thornfish →bandfish 61% match — Any of many perciform fish of the family Cepolidae vs thornfish →bythitid 60% match — Any fish in the family Bythitidae, the brotulas. vs thornfish →thaumatichthyid 59% match — Any fish in the family Thaumatichthyidae. vs thornfish →botiid 57% match — Any fish in the family Botiidae. vs thornfish →trachinoid 57% match — Of, pertaining to, or like fish of genus Trachinus (the weevers). vs thornfish →percichthyid 56% match — Any fish in the family Percichthyidae. vs thornfish →percophid 56% match — Any fish in the family Percophidae. vs thornfish →