Home › Words › W › weaverfishweaverfishweaverfish means A fish in family Trachinidae, with venomous dorsal spines, the weever.EtymologyAlteration of weeverfishnounA fish in family Trachinidae, with venomous dorsal spines, the weever.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.weeverfish 85% match — weever (type of fish in family Trachinidae) vs weaverfish →trachinoid 68% match — Of, pertaining to, or like fish of genus Trachinus (the weevers). vs weaverfish →weedfish 61% match — One of a variety of species of fish of the family Clinidae found in the waters off Australia and New Zealand. vs weaverfish →weaverbird 60% match — Any of various Old World passerine birds in either of two families known for building nests of intricately woven vegetation.; Ploceidae, the family most commonly known by this name vs weaverfish →weely 60% match — A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs. vs weaverfish →threadfish 58% match — A cutlassfish (Trichiuridae). vs weaverfish →velvetfish 57% match — Any of a family of scorpaeniform fish (Aploactinidae). vs weaverfish →velifer 57% match — Any of two species of fish that make up the family Veliferidae: a spinyfin velifer (Metavelifer multiradiatus) and a sailfin velifer (Vellifer hypselopterus) vs weaverfish →