单词 | in roe |
释义 | > as lemmasin roe in roe: (of a female fish) carrying roe. ΚΠ 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 141 [Cod] begin to spawn in January... Some continue in roe till the beginning of April. 1818 Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. Feb. 293/2 Dr. Mitchill..found ten females in roe in the month of September. 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 374 Who can say they have ever taken a female [eel] in roe, or tasted a male's milt? 1904 Washington Med. Ann. 3 84 The shad was a 5-pound female in roe. 2008 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 22 Mar. There's been plenty of sex going on, females coming aboard still in roe to prove they are repeat-breeding. < as lemmas |
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