What does roe mean?
Roe means Eggs of fish..
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/ˈɹəʊ/ · noun
Eggs of fish..
It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness.
Today, some seafood experts say, the cheaper (though mushier) roe feeds 60 percent of the market.
And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes, Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes, That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.
The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.
"[...] and we may, God willing, meet with a roe. The roe, Captain Waverley, may be hunted at all times alike; for never being in what is called pride of grease, he is also never out of season, though it be a truth that his venison is not equal to that of either the red or fallow deer. But he will serve to show how my dogs run [...]"
Use roe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Roe means Eggs of fish..
Common synonyms include milt, hard roe.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness.
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