roughy
nounEtymology From rough + -y.
› A fish in family Trachichthyidae
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The orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus.
- 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.1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:
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Australia Any of several marine fish of the related genus Trachichthys, which have rough and spiny scales.