orange roughy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Coming in second place was the orange roughy, a deep-sea fish in the slimehead family - known for the mucous canals on their heads.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2025
He taught me how to cook escargot, orange roughy with almonds with lemon butter sauce with white wine.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2023
We had orange roughy, that was a fish that takes 25 years to become like this.
From Salon • Oct. 4, 2023
So it was that the indigestible duo of slimehead and toothfish became the highly palatable orange roughy and Chilean sea bass.
From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2018
You can substitute catfish, flounder, or orange roughy for tilapia.
From Southern Living • Sep. 21, 2010
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