Bo-tär'go, n.

n. [Sp. botarga, a kind of large sausages, a sort of wide breeches; contracted from botalarga, a large leather bag; It. bottarga, bottarica, Fr. boutarge.] A sort of cake or sausage, made of the roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink. Rabelais, Trans.