| 单词 | soft roe |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoft roe b. In full soft roe. The milt or sperm of a male fish; the mature testes containing this. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > spawn > of male milka1398 spawnc1430 milt1483 milker?a1500 soft roe1587 milch1673 milter1834 1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell 138 Take a bareld hearing with a soft row. 1602 J. Clarke Trumpet of Apollo sig. D4v The soft roe of a red herring incorporated with the pulpe of figges..applied to cornes. 1742 H. Baker Microscope made Easy ii. xvi. 159 The Milt or soft Row of Fishes. 1770 G. Edwards Ess. Nat. Hist. 62 Shedding his seed (called soft roe) in the water at the same time, it mixes with, and gives life to the eggs, without his touching the female. ?1790 W. A. Henderson Housekeeper's Instructor 366 The roe of a male fish is soft. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 8 The male shortly afterwards passes over the spawn or hard roe, and discharges upon it his sperm, which we call soft roe or milt. 1896 J. T. Cunningham Nat. Hist. MarketableMarine Fishes Brit. Islands 73 In the flat fishes such as the plaice..the soft roe of the male is much smaller than the hard roe of the female. 1961 D. Magarshak tr. N. V. Gogol Dead Souls iv. 70 Sterlet soup with pieces of burbot and soft roe hisses and gurgles between their teeth. 1996 A. D. Livingston Compl. Fish & Game Cookbk. ix. 77/2 White roe from mullet..is one of my favorites, but carp, mackerel, shad, and other fish also have good white roe. < as lemmas |
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