Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The eggs or the egg-laden ovary of a fish.
- n. The egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans, such as the lobster.
- n. The roe deer.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The roe-deer.
- n. Improperly, the adult female of the hart; the doe of the stag or red deer.
- n. The spawn of a fish. That of the male is sperm, called
milt or soft roe; that of the female is the mass of eggs, distinguished as hard roe. Roe is much eaten, either in its natural state or variously prepared. Seebotargo , caviar. - n. The spawn of various crustaceans, used for food, as the berry, coral, or mass of eggs of the female lobster.
- n. A mottled appearance in wood, especially in mahogany, being the alternate streak of light and shade running with the grain, or from end to end of the log.
Wiktionary
- n. The eggs of fish.
- n. The sperm of certain fish.
- n. The ovaries of certain crustaceans.
- n. A small, nimble Eurasian deer, Capreolus capreolus, with short three-pointed antlers, no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter.
- n. A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A roebuck. See roebuck.
- n. The female of any species of deer.
- n. (Zoöl.) The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male.
- n. A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
WordNet 3.0
- n. fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture
- n. the egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans such as the lobster
- n. the eggs or egg-laden ovary of a fish
- n. eggs of female fish
Etymologies
- Middle English ro, from Old English rā, fuller rāha, from Proto-Germanic *raihan (compare Saterland Frisian Räi, Dutch ree, German Reh), from *róiko-, from Proto-Indo-European *rei- (“spotted, streaked”) (compare Irish riabh ‘stripe, streak’, Latvian ràibs ‘spotted’, Russian rjabój ‘mottled fur’). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English row, from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch roge.Middle English ro, from Old English rā, rāha. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If sea urchin roe is fresh, it doesn't taste of iodine.”
“Urchin roe is especially prized as a superb and permissible treat during the long Lenten fast.”
“The mountain roe is rousd — awakes the hunters cry.”
“Seems a shame to throw it out when I know other fish roe is so delicious.”
“A friend of mine swears the only way to eat the roe is sauteed in butter on toast points, but just about everything is good sauteed in butter with or without toast points.”
“All recent democratic nominees have said the same thing as sotomayor. even roberts in his DC nomination said that roe is "settled law".”
“The dish is absolutely delicious when made with 1/2 cup fresh sea urchin roe, as Lazarou specifies, and decadent if 3/4 cup roe is used, as I admit to having done.”
“Your risotto looks really good, but although I respect sea urchin roe as a great delicacy, the smell of iodine really puts me off.”
“Although I have never eaten sea urchin roe before, I know all about them from seeing my mother toss back the roe a la carte, while sitting on keros beach.”
“I'm going to have to show the photo of your urchin roe risotto to my mother.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘roe’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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PECH - fishing technology
anchor, berth, drop anchor, anchored floating..., artificial restoc..., bait, beam trawls, bottom gillnets, entangling nets, bottom nets, bottom-set nets, bottom pair trawl and 478 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones. Aún faltan algunas por encontrar.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch se consideran com...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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theastic's Words
cellar, stalemate, wrought, opal, tyrant, squelch, squab, linen, tartan, paisley, scope, siren and 395 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 848 more...
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Alaska
Names of places, animals, plants, people, etc. found in and around Alaska.
koyukon, chinook, coho, sockeye, king salmon, chum, dog salmon, kipper, kelt, baggit, samlet, parr and 225 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, R
retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
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Edible
sashimi, tiramisu, quenepa, lychee, dulce de leche, flan, buffalo wings, sorbet, pasteles, sherbet, turducken, mochi and 79 more...
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Triple Homonyms
mete, meat, meet, prize, prise, pries, seas, sees, seize, laze, lays, leis and 48 more...
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Clarification, Please
Words I didn't know, or words I did know but seemed strange in the context because the author was using fifth or sixth definitions of the word.
perspicuously, exegesis, prima facie, roe, hawthorn, deodand, kirtle
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