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roe

[roh] / roʊ /
NOUN
caviar
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During his visit, Putin sampled fish roe and spoke to island locals, Russian state media reported.

From BBC Aug. 13, 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

Paramount Caviar’s kosher salmon roe adds a delicious salty, briny pop to deviled eggs, hash browns with whipped cream cheese and dill, or toast points with crème fraîche.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

The Eurasian lynx was hunted to extinction in the UK about 1,000 years ago, and campaigners argue the species should be reintroduced to north Northumberland to help control roe deer populations and improve the ecosystem.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

There were spiced and pickled herring fillets, sardines, smoked eels and cod’s roe.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

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

There rose a king in Scotland, A fell man to his foes, He smote the Picts in battle, He hunted them like roes.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson




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