| Noun | 1. | roe - fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy textureseafood - edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc coral - unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces caviar, caviare - salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre shad roe - roe of shad; may be parboiled or baked or sauteed gently | |
| 2. | roe - eggs of female fishegg - animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds fish - any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the livingroom there was a tank of colorful fish" | |
| 3. | roe - the egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans such as the lobsterspawn - the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs | |
| 4. | roe - the eggs or egg-laden ovary of a fishegg - animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds | |