roughy
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- noun
- /ˈrəʊfi/
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pez roca
- We had orange roughy for dinner last night.
- orange roughy
Examples
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For fish, a bit of swordfish and and some orange roughy.
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More conservative sources also add tuna steak, Spanish mackerel, grouper, and orange roughy to the list.
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Near New Zealand, such orange roughy hotspots have already disappeared.
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For example, fishing for orange roughy in Tasmania and New Zealand is a ghost of its former self.
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Some deep-living fish, like the orange roughy, don't reach maturity until nearly 30 and can live to 125 years.
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Another octopus species of the genus Graneledone, a fish known as orange roughy, and small groups of echinoderms were the only examples known.
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You could argue that we fished out midwater animals like orange roughy and toothfish, but not much in the open seas, mostly near seamounts.
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Chilean seabass, which is commonly on the menu, used to be called Patagonian toothfish, and orange roughy used to be called slimeheads.
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More conservative sources also add tuna steak, Spanish mackerel, grouper, and orange roughy to the list.
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Some deep-living fish, like the orange roughy, don't reach maturity until nearly 30 and can live to 125 years.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Roughy probably comes from the English word rough, which means 'not smooth', plus the ending -y. People may have used that name because the fish has rough skin or a rough head, so roughy became the name for a type of deep-sea fish like the orange roughy.