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Roe vs Ovum - What's the difference?

roe | ovum |

As nouns the difference between roe and ovum

is that roe is a withe or rope or roe can be flat or level ground while ovum is (label) the female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

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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    ovum

    English

    Noun

    (ova)
  • (label) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

    • Synonyms

    * megagamete

    Hypernyms

    * gamete

    Coordinate terms

    * spermatozoon

    Related terms

    {{rel3, oval , Ovaltine , ovary , ovate , oviparous , ovo-lacto-vegetarian , ovoid , ovulate}}

    See also

    * oocyte English nouns with irregular plurals ----