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Word entry · 3 letters

roe

Best crossword clue

"Seafood eggs"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹəʊ/Part of speech nounSorted eorStarts with REnds with E2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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01Seafood eggs3 letters
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