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Roe vs Cottontail - What's the difference?

roe | cottontail |

As nouns the difference between roe and cottontail

is that roe is a withe or rope or roe can be flat or level ground while cottontail is a rabbit of any of various species in genus.

roe

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from (etyl) .Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “Rogen” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(-) (wikipedia roe)
  • The eggs of fish.
  • The sperm of certain fish.
  • The ovaries of certain crustaceans.
    • Quotations
    * 1988' : It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of '''roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness. - , (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 40)
    Synonyms
    * (sperm) milt
    Derived terms
    * hard roe * soft roe * white roe

    See also

    * caviar * egg

    References

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) ro, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun) (Roe Deer)
  • A small, nimble Eurasian deer, Capreolus capreolus , with no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter, the male having short three-pointed antlers.
  • A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
    • Synonyms
    * roe deer, chevreuil
    Derived terms
    * roebuck

    Anagrams

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    cottontail

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rabbit of any of various species in genus .
  • (nudism) A person with a tanned body and untanned buttocks resembling a cottontail rabbit's dark fur and light tail.

    • Synonyms

    * (rabbit) cottontail rabbit

    Hyponyms

    * (certain rabbits in genus) swamp rabbit, tapeti, Dice's cottontail, omilteme cottontail, marsh rabbit, desert cottontail, Mexican cottontail, eastern cottontail, mountain cottontail, Appalachian cottontail, Allegheny cottontail, robust cottontail, New England cottontail, brush rabbit

    See also

    * ("cottontail" on Wikipedia) * (Sylvilagus) * (cottontail)