nounplural noun roughies

• 1A marine fish with a deep laterally compressed body and large rough-edged scales which become spiny on the belly.

  Family Trachichthyidae: several genera and species, including the small Australian Trachichthys australis, which occurs on rocky reefs

  ‘Florida Bay serves as a spawning ground for pretty much every fish in the central Atlantic - grouper, snapper, mahi-mahi, pompano, roughy.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Orange roughy were found in concentrations in some locations, but underwater pinnacles and other obstructions made trawling very difficult.’
  • ‘Orange roughy reach 150 years old and they don't reproduce until they're in the mid 20s to mid 30s.’
  • ‘The smaller silver roughy, H. mediterraneus, has a similarly wide distribution but is of much less importance.’
  • ‘Orange roughie live 130 years and these things are completing their life cycle in a year.’
• 2

  another term for ruff (sense 1)