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单词 roughy
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Definition of roughy in English:

roughy

(Australian, NZ roughie)
nounPlural roughies ˈrʌfiˈrəfē
Australian, NZ
  • 1A marine fish with a deep laterally compressed body and large rough-edged scales which become spiny on the belly.

    Family Trachichthyidae: several genera and species, including the small Australian Trachichthys australis, which occurs on rocky reefs

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Orange roughy reach 150 years old and they don't reproduce until they're in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
    • Florida Bay serves as a spawning ground for pretty much every fish in the central Atlantic - grouper, snapper, mahi-mahi, pompano, roughy.
    • Orange roughie live 130 years and these things are completing their life cycle in a year.
    • Orange roughy were found in concentrations in some locations, but underwater pinnacles and other obstructions made trawling very difficult.
    • The smaller silver roughy, H. mediterraneus, has a similarly wide distribution but is of much less importance.
  • 2

    another term for ruff (sense 1)

Rhymes

fluffy, huffy, puffy, roughie, scruffy, snuffy, stuffy, toughie
 
 

Definition of roughy in US English:

roughy

nounˈrəfē
Australian, NZ
  • 1A marine fish with a deep laterally compressed body and large rough-edged scales which become spiny on the belly.

    Family Trachichthyidae: several genera and species, including the small Australian Trachichthys australis, which occurs on rocky reefs, and the orange roughy

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The smaller silver roughy, H. mediterraneus, has a similarly wide distribution but is of much less importance.
    • Florida Bay serves as a spawning ground for pretty much every fish in the central Atlantic - grouper, snapper, mahi-mahi, pompano, roughy.
    • Orange roughie live 130 years and these things are completing their life cycle in a year.
    • Orange roughy reach 150 years old and they don't reproduce until they're in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
    • Orange roughy were found in concentrations in some locations, but underwater pinnacles and other obstructions made trawling very difficult.
  • 2

    another term for ruff (sense 1)
 
 
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