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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A perchlike food fish (Arripis georgianus) of Australia and New Zealand.
  2. n. A small fish (Trachichthys australis) with rough scales, found in shallow waters along the southeast coast of Australia.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus.
  2. n. Australia Any of several marine fish of the related genus Trachichthys, which have rough and spiny scales.

Etymologies

  1. Probably from rough. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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