orange roughy

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orange roughy (plural orange roughies)

  1. An edible deep-sea fish (Hoplostethus atlanticus), of the slimehead family (Trachichthyidae).
    • 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:
      Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

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