roughy

English

Alternative forms

• roughie

Etymology

From rough +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌfi

Noun

roughy (plural roughies)

1. A fish in family Trachichthyidae
   1. The orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus.
      • 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

        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.

   2. (Australia) Any of several marine fish of the related genus Trachichthys, which have rough and spiny scales.

Synonyms

• (fish in Trachyichthyidae): slimehead, redfish

Translations

orange roughy — see orange roughy

fish of the genus Trachichthys