roes
roes is the plural of roe.
Meaning of roe
Noun (1)
roe (usually uncountable, plural roes)
- Eggs of fish.
- It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 40
- Sperm of certain fish.
- Synonyms:
- milt
- Ovaries of certain crustaceans.
Noun (2)
roe (plural roe or roes)
Noun (1) capitalized: ROEs
ROEs
- plural of ROE
Noun (2) capitalized: RoEs
RoEs
- plural of RoE
Proper noun capitalized: Roes
Roes
- plural of Roe
Phrases with roes
Words that rhyme with roes
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- interpose
- propose
- gloze
- oppose
- disclose
- foreclose
- prose
- snows
- turn up one's nose
- unclose
- adipose
- appose
- arose
- chose
- counterpose
- croze
- decompose
- doze
- enclose
- froze
- hoes
- knows
- adoze
- apollos
- beaus
- beprose
- blows
- bose
- bros
- châteaux
- cloze
- coze
- crows
- does
- dos
- doughs
- fallows
- fellows
- flows
- foes
- follows
- foredispose
- frows
- glows
- goes
- grows
- hard-nose
- hollows
Questions about roes
- What is roes the plural of?
- Roes is the plural of roe.
- What part of speech is roes?
- Roes can be a noun or a proper noun.
Words near roes in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: roes (page history and authors); ROEs (page history and authors); RoEs (page history and authors); Roes (page history and authors); roe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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