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roe

[roh] / roʊ /
NOUN
caviar
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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

Ongoing analysis has identified footprints of red deer, roe deer and other animals as well as humans.

From BBC Feb. 20, 2026

There are currently six deer species in Britain – red, sika, fallow, roe, muntjac and Chinese water - but only red and roe are "truly indigenous", according to the British Deer Society.

From BBC Feb. 19, 2026

How could taking a roe buck mean death?

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

Having scraped and washed them, cut off the heads, split open, take out the roes, and cleanse the fish.

From Nelson's Home Comforts Thirteenth Edition by Mary Hooper




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