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# roe

«roe» in Mova's school dictionary: **the mass of eggs inside a female fish, often eaten as food** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (roe; also a roe, roes for the deer)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Roe is the mass of eggs inside a female fish, often eaten as food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roe/#m1)

2) A roe or roe deer is a small deer of Europe and Asia with a reddish coat; the male is called a roebuck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roe/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, roe is a stage in the life cycle of fish (eggs). In food lessons, cod roe and salmon roe are eaten in many countries; caviar is the roe of the sturgeon. In nature lessons in the UK and Ireland, roe deer live in woods. Phrases: «cod roe», «salmon roe», «roe deer».

### examples

- The salmon laid her roe in the gravel of the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roe/#x1)
- Caviar is a very expensive kind of roe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roe/#x2)
- Grandad likes cod roe on toast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roe/#x3)
- We saw a roe deer at the edge of the wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roe/#x4)
- The orange balls on the sushi were fish roe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roe/#x5)
- A roe deer is smaller than a red deer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roe/#x6)
- The Roe was petted and caressed, and ran about at will in the palace gardens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roe/#x7)

### note

Fish roe is uncountable («some roe»). Sounds the same as «row» (a line, or to move a boat with oars) and «Roe» in names. Do not confuse with «doe», a female deer.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «roe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.