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roe

[roh] / roʊ /
NOUN
caviar
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Earlier this week, an incinerated roe deer was seen lying on the blackened ground.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 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

Those egg thingies with roe were so good.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

There have been deer in mainland Britain for thousands of years but only two of the now six species that live here are natives, namely red and roe deer.

From BBC Dec. 25, 2025

He was talking with a mouthful of Philadelphia cream cheese and salmon roe to an optometrist’s wife.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Bones of stags, roes, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, dogs and fish were discovered, but no human skeletons.

From Time Magazine Archive

The roes are also carefully preserved, and form a favourite article of their food.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II by Alexander Mackenzie




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