ROUGHY

Noun

roughy (plural roughies)

A fish in family Trachichthyidae

The orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus.

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

Synonyms

• (fish in Trachyichthyidae): slimehead, redfish

Source: Wiktionary



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The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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