Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small spiny freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernuus) of the family Percidae, native to Eurasia but introduced into and spreading in the Great Lakes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
roughie .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fish , the Eurasian ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus) and other species in the same genus.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The introduction of another fish called the ruffe, which preys upon the eggs and young Gwyniads, has seen their numbers fall to as low as 31 females since the 1980s.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The introduction of another fish called the ruffe, which preys upon the eggs and young Gwyniads, has seen their numbers fall to as low as 31 females since the 1980s.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The introduction of another fish called the ruffe, which preys upon the eggs and young Gwyniads, has seen their numbers fall to as low as 31 females since the 1980s.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Several species in the Yenisey and Lena Rivers that prefer warmer boreal-plain habitats (e.g., roach, ide, common dace – Leuciscus leuciscus baicalensis, European perch, and ruffe – Gymnocephalus cernuus) are likely to move into the northern mouth areas of these rivers that are currently dominated by whitefishes and chars.
Climate change effects on arctic freshwater fish populations 2009
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For example, in Loch Lomond in Scotland the invasive ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus) eats the eggs of an arctic relict species, the powan (Coregonus lavaretus), thereby threatening this species in one of its only British habitats [66].
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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Charcoale fire, let your Grid-iron be hot, rub your Grid-iron with some ruffe Suet; the skinne will not burne; this is good; but take the skin off, and stew the Eele betwixt two Dishes, on a Chafing-dish of
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Out of your _little ruffe_, Dorcas, and in the fashion!
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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Shooes, he asked, if they would make him a ruffe-footed-Dove? one yard of six penny Ribbond served that turne: His Dyet and Journies were so constant, that the best observing Courtier of our time was wont to say, were he asleep seven yeares, and then awakened, he would tell where the King every day had been, and every dish he had had at his
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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The _ruffe_ or _pope_ (_Acerina vulgaris_) is a little fish common in the Thames and many other slow-flowing English rivers.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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In another place, he says, "some transformed themselves to rogues, others to ruffians, some others to Clownes, a fourth to fools; the rogues were ready, the ruffians were rude, theyr Clownes cladde as well with country condition, as in ruffe russet; theyr fooles as fond as might be."
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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