roughy
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Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌfi
Noun
roughy (plural roughies)
- A fish in family Trachichthyidae
- The orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus.
- 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.
- (Australia) Any of several marine fish of the related genus Trachichthys, which have rough and spiny scales.
- The orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus.
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orange roughy — see orange roughy
fish of the genus Trachichthys