Roe (disambiguation)

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Roe or hard roe, is the fully ripe egg masses of fish and certain marine invertebrates.

Roe or ROE may refer to:

Biology

• Soft roe or milt, the semen of fish
• Roe deer, the deer of Britain and Europe

Entertainment

• Rebuild of Evangelion, a film series
• Rise of the Eldrazi, a Magic: The Gathering expansion
• Rubies of Eventide, a 2003 medieval fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game
• Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, a 2005 expansion pack for the video game Doom 3
• "Roe", an episode of Boston Legal; see List of Boston Legal episodes

Finance

• Return on equity, the rate of return for ownership interest of common stock owners

Names

• Roe (surname)
• Jane Roe and Richard Roe, placeholder names a party whose true identity is unknown or must be withheld in a legal action, case, or discussion
• Norma McCorvey (born 1947), the "Jane Roe" from Roe v. Wade

Places

• River Roe in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK
• Roe River, Montana, US, the shortest river in the world
• Roe, Arkansas, a town in Monroe County, Arkansas, US
• Roes Spring, a stream in Georgia

Australia

• Roe Highway, named for John Septimus Roe
• Roe River (Western Australia), flowing into York Sound
• Mallee (biogeographic region), formerly known as Roe Botanical District
• Electoral district of Roe, Western Australia

Other uses

• USS Roe, the name of two ships in the United States Navy
• Charles H. Roe, a British coachbuilding company
• Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Rules of engagement, in the military

See also

• Roe v. Wade, the court case that legalized abortion in the United States