roe
noun
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
roe
1 American
[roh]
/ roʊ /
noun
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the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
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the milt or sperm of the male fish.
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the eggs of any of various crustaceans, as the coral of the lobster.
roe
2
American
[roh]
/ roʊ /
noun
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roes,
plural
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roe
plural
ROE
3
American
Accounting.
roe
1
British
/ rəʊ /
noun
roe
2
British
/ rəʊ /
noun
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Also called: hard roe. the ovary of a female fish filled with mature eggs
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Also called: soft roe. the testis of a male fish filled with mature sperm
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the ripe ovary of certain crustaceans, such as the lobster
Roe
3
British
/ rəʊ /
noun
roe
Scientific
/ rō /
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of roe1
1400–50; late Middle English rowe; cognate with Old High German rogo
Origin of roe2
before 900; Middle English roo, Old English rā, rāha; cognate with German Reh
Vocabulary lists containing roe
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Building on recent trends that paired bougie caviar with chicken nuggets and hot dogs, these startups are bringing high-end roe to everyday shoppers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
In recent days, AFP journalists have seen roe deer and fawns looking disorientated in the middle of scorched and barren woodland.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Those egg thingies with roe were so good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Ora King salmon crudo was dressed in passionfruit aguachile with Tabasco oil, while a uni carbonara used creamy sea urchin in place of guanciale, finished with smoked trout roe.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026
It was only a small roe buck, but if he could bring it down, it would be the first big kill he’d ever made on his own.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Net interest margin pressure and higher credit costs are also expected to weigh on earnings, although forex gains could provide some cushion to its ROE, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
This is much higher than the bank’s own goal of a “midteens” ROE, which was reiterated by CEO David Solomon during the bank’s first-quarter earnings call on Jan. 15.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
BOQ expects ROE accretion of 15-25 basis points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Since this new screen is for the entire financial sector, our second factor was to limit the group of 51 companies to those with trailing ROE ranking in the upper half.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
In simplest terms, ROE answers the question: How much money does this company make relative to its stuff?
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
Roe House’s White Sturgeon was subtle and moreish; Cavi’s Kaluga Hybrid and Osetra varieties won extra points for butteriness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
“I probably got my period in 1973, which was when Roe passed,” she said.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Her work directly inspired the women who sued their home state of Connecticut for the right to abortion, a case that preceded and informed Roe.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
According to Roe, the results suggest that disease-related processes may already be developing in the brain long before they can be seen with today's most sensitive imaging methods.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
A longtime telecommunications analyst named Kevin Roe told the paper that 75 percent or more of wireless company revenue came from drivers well into the 1990s.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
The caviar, he stresses, is not beluga but a far more affordable paste blend of roes, marketed with his endorsement.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2022
I fell in love with it for its section on savouries, the course that theoretically comes after pudding – herring roes on toast, deep fried St Eadburgha, baked figs and gorgonzola.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2012
Bones of stags, roes, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, dogs and fish were discovered, but no human skeletons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says Meyer Berman of Manhattan's Scheinman, Hochslin & Trotta: "There will be new he roes because the stock market needs heroes."
From Time Magazine Archive
When unadulterated by the stinking oil, these boiled roes are not unpalatable food.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II by Alexander Mackenzie
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