1866 Mar. 85 The living roe-corns, through a kind of breathing process, have consumed the oxygen from the water.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 321 in (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV These boxes contain each two thousand roe ‘corns’.
2002 (Nexis) 22 Jan. The flooding of fish hatchery premises threatens one million roe-corns of salmon laid for incubation there.