ROE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roe mean? 

• ROE (noun)
  The noun ROE has 4 senses:

1. fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture

2. eggs of female fish

3. the egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans such as the lobster

4. the eggs or egg-laden ovary of a fish

  Familiarity information: ROE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

hard roe; roe

Hypernyms ("roe" is a kind of...):

seafood (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roe"):

coral (unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces)

caviar; caviare (salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre)

shad roe (roe of shad; may be parboiled or baked or sauteed gently)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eggs of female fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("roe" is a kind of...):

egg (animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds)

Holonyms ("roe" is a part of...):

fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans such as the lobster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("roe" is a kind of...):

spawn (the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The eggs or egg-laden ovary of a fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("roe" is a kind of...):

egg (animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds)

 Context examples 

One day he sent out a huntsman to shoot him a roe, but he did not come back.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The little hare would eat a cabbage-leaf out of their hands, the roe grazed by their side, the stag leapt merrily by them, and the birds sat still upon the boughs, and sang whatever they knew.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)