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Roe is fish eggs when we talk about them as food. The tight cluster of tiny eggs from a female fish is hard roe; the soft pale stuff from a male fish is soft roe (that is really sperm, though menus almost never say so). You meet it as bright orange salmon eggs on sushi, as a smear of cod roe on toast, or as when the eggs come from and cost a great deal. It is a cooking and market word, not the usual biology-class word — scientists are more likely to say spawn or eggs. There is another, completely different word roe meaning a small deer; same spelling, nothing to do with fish.
魚卵、魚子(拿來吃的)。鮭魚卵、魚子醬都算。
組成From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, from Old English *hrogn “spawn, fish eggs, roe”, from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz / *hrugną, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- “(frog) spawn”.
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Roename詞源 1/ɹoʊ/
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A surname transferred from the nickname.
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A town in Monroe County, Arkansas, United States.
Roename詞源 2/ɹoʊ/
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A river in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
roenoun詞源 1/ˈɹəʊ/
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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.
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Sperm of certain fish.
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Ovaries of certain crustaceans.
roenoun詞源 2/ˈɹəʊ/
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A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。