Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various deep-water fishes of the family Trachichthyidae, having mucus-filled cavities in the head and rough scales, and including the orange roughy.
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- noun The
orange roughy , Hoplostethus atlanticus. - noun Australia Any of several
marine fish of the related genus Trachichthys, which haverough andspiny scales .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Then you find out, as they did with orange roughy, that these are very long-lived animals - the damn things orange roughy go over 100 years old.
Steven Crandell: Exploring the Deep Ocean -- Emory Kristof's Pioneering Photography (VIDEO) Steven Crandell 2011
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These aliens were roughy 500% LESS-MENACING than the Daleks, or the Cybermen, or even that massive demon that Jack had to die fighting at the end of Torchwood series 1.
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I make it with half some sort of sturdy white fish, like tilapia or orange roughy, and half with shrimp.
Pickled shrimp with lime | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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As I recall … people have campaigned against that ‘roughy-toughy’ style of Policing and dont want Police that knock people about - unless its someone else, of course …
Have You Heard The One About……. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Last year, the company stopped selling seven other species on the Greenpeace red list including Atlantic cod, Chilean sea bass and orange roughy, says Jeff Lyons , Costco's senior vice president of fresh foods.
The Slippery Business of Picking Fish Sarah Nassauer 2011
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Then you find out, as they did with orange roughy, that these are very long-lived animals - the damn things orange roughy go over 100 years old.
Steven Crandell: Exploring the Deep Ocean -- Emory Kristof's Pioneering Photography (VIDEO) Steven Crandell 2011
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Although it continues to sell 10 red-list species, Safeway recently along with Costco, Harris Teeter and H.E.B. discontinued the sale of orange roughy, a vulnerable and unsustainably caught species, primarily from the deep seas off New Zealand.
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Avoid farmed salmon, which has a high PCB content, and high-mercury fish such as king mackerel, marlin, orange roughy, shark, swordfish, tilefish, and tuna.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Avoid farmed salmon, which has a high PCB content, and high-mercury fish such as king mackerel, marlin, orange roughy, shark, swordfish, tilefish, and tuna.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Eight companies have demonstrated their commitment to improving their seafood sustainability by removing from sale some imperiled species such as orange roughy and sharks.
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