Roe is the fully ripe egg masses of fish an certain marine animals, such as sea urchin, shrimp and scallop. As a seafood it is used both as a cooked ingredient in many dishes and as a raw ingredient.

Trivia about roe

  • This word can mean a type of small deer or the eggs of a fish
  • The topping seen here is ikura, made of these from a salmon
  • It's the part of the female cod that's smoked & made into the Greek paste taramasalata
  • Sushi-wise, uni is this from sea urchins
  • 3-letter synonym for caviar
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Catalina Island.) The inner cavities of sea urchins contain 5 sets of invertebrate eggs, known by this 3-letter name