释义 |
roe1 /rəʊ /noun1 (also hard roe) [mass noun] The mass of eggs contained in the ovaries of a female fish or shellfish, especially when ripe and used as food; the full ovaries themselves: lumpfish roe is most like caviar...- You need smoked cod's roe, which many good fishmongers sell.
- Increasing in popularity; the most affordable sturgeon roe has a small grain similar to Russian Sevruga.
- The fish was poached in seaweed and served warm with a tomato concassé, caper berries and finished off with herring roe and a little wasabi.
1.1 (soft roe) The ripe testes of a male fish, especially when used as food.Add the sake to the codfish soft roe and mix to combine. OriginLate Middle English: related to Middle Low German, Middle Dutch roge. Rhymesaglow, ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, beau, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow, bo, Boileau, bons mots, Bordeaux, Bow, bravo, bro, cachepot, cheerio, Coe, crow, Defoe, de trop, doe, doh, dos-à-dos, do-si-do, dough, dzo, Flo, floe, flow, foe, foreknow, foreshow, forgo, Foucault, froe, glow, go, good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, hoe, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, mow, Munro, no, Noh, no-show, oh, oho, outgo, outgrow, owe, Perrault, pho, po, Poe, pro, quid pro quo, reshow, righto, Rouault, row, Rowe, sew, shew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, soh, sow, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, tally-ho, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, yo-ho-ho, Zhengzhou, Zhou roe2 /rəʊ /(also roe deer) noun (plural same or roes)A small Eurasian deer which lacks a visible tail and has a reddish summer coat that turns greyish in winter.- Genus Capreolus, family Cervidae: two species, in particular the European roe deer (C. capreolus).
They preyed on roe deer, red deer, and wild boar, but were also much loathed and dreaded for their depredations against livestock, especially sheep....- New tools and weapons were invented to hunt the animals of the forests such as red deer, roe deer, wild boar, and cattle.
- At the end of the Anglo-Saxon period they were pursuing red deer and roe deer, animals which are all but absent in earlier bone assemblages.
OriginOld English rā(ha), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ree and German Reh. ROE3abbreviation1 Finance Return on equity. 2Rules of engagement (in combat). |