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Definition of
roe noun
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
roe
noun
noun
NAmE
/
/
roʊ
/
/
[
uncountable
,
countable
]
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the mass of eggs inside a female fish (
hard roe
) or the
sperm
of a male fish (
soft roe
), used as food
cod's roe
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roe
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