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roe
(English) The mass of eggs in the ovary. Soft roe refers to the male gonad, hard roe to the female gonad. Roe may also be used to indicate the female of a species, e.g. roe shad is female, buck shad is male (Alosa sapidissima). (See also: ripe fish, milt)

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