Home › Words › T › turkeyfishturkeyfishturkeyfish means another name for a lionfish.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, turkeyfish ranks #16,782 of 42,789 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom turkey + fish.nounAnother name for a lionfishDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.lionfish 58% match — Any of various ray-finned fishes of the tribe Pteroini (especially of the genus Pterois) in the family Scorpaenidae. vs turkeyfish →foxfish 57% match — A fox shark or sea fox. vs turkeyfish →jobfish 56% match — Any of various fishes of the family Lutjanidae. vs turkeyfish →firefish 56% match — Any of several species of fish in the genus Nemateleotris vs turkeyfish →witfish 55% match — The ladyfish. vs turkeyfish →batfish 55% match — Any of several anglerfish of the family Ogcocephalidae vs turkeyfish →flagfish 55% match — A freshwater fish in the family Cyprinodontidae native to Florida, Jordanella floridae, sometimes kept in aquaria and used in laboratory tests of the biological effects of environmental pollutants. vs turkeyfish →foolfish 55% match — filefish vs turkeyfish →