roe

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n. 狍, 鱼子, 鱼卵 [医] 鱼卵, 牝鹿

发音

UK /ˈɹəʊ/
US /ˈɹoʊ/

词形变化

roes 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Eggs of fish.

    鱼子

    鱼卵

    鲕

    不可数
  2. 2.

    Sperm of certain fish.

    不可数
  3. 3.

    Ovaries of certain crustaceans.

    不可数
  4. 1.

    Ellipsis of roe deer.

  5. 2.

    A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

hard roe

上位词 3

egg seafood spawn

下位词 3

coral caviar caviare

整体词 1

fish

相关短语

roe deer n. 狍 Roe Green western roe deer white roe soft roe n. 鱼白，鱼精 hard roe n. 鱼卵 Jane Roe Richard Roe 某乙（对诉讼中不知名的当事人称呼）

词源

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”). Cognate with Dutch roge (“roe”), German Low German Rögen (“roe”), German Rogen (“roe”), Danish rogn, ravn (“roe”), Swedish rom (“roe”), Icelandic hrogn (“roe”), Lithuanian kurkulai̇̃ (“frog spawn”), Russian кряк (krjak, “frog spawn”).

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