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rough·y

 (rŭf′ē)
n. pl. roughy or rough·ies
1. Any of various deep-water fishes of the family Trachichthyidae, having mucus-filled cavities in the head and rough scales, and including the orange roughy. Also called slimehead.
2. See ruff3.

[Sense 1, probably from rough.]
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Further, the advisory, published in the journal Circulation, laid emphasis on eating fish such as shark, swordfish, tilefish, king mackerel, bigeye tuna, marlin and orange roughy that are high in mercury.
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Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency, recommends that at-risk consumers avoid seven types of fish that typically contain high levels of mercury: tilefish from the Gulf of Mexico, shark, swordfish, orange roughy, bigeye tuna, marlin and king mackerel.
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