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Roughy vs Shearling - What's the difference?

roughy | shearling | coordinate terms |

Roughy is a coordinate term of shearling.


As nouns the difference between roughy and shearling

is that roughy is the orange roughy, (taxlink) while shearling is a sheep that has been shorn for the first time.

roughy

English

Alternative forms

* roughie

Noun

(roughies)
  • The orange roughy, (taxlink).
  • (Australia) Any of several marine fish of the related genus (taxlink), which have rough and spiny scales.

    • shearling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
  • * {{quote-book, 1853, David Low, On the Domesticated Animals of the British Isles, , page=97
    • , passage=They are rarely fattened when shearlings , the usual period being after they have lost their second fleece, and are wethers. }}
  • (chiefly, US) A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth
    • Her coat was lined with shearling.

    Coordinate terms

    * roughy * clippy * wether * hog

    See also

    * (wikipedia "shearling")

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