ADJECTIVE
-
of something having a dusty purplish pink color
the roseate glow of dawn - of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Rosaceae
How To Use rosaceous In A Sentence
- 'Grass-rose,' or put it out of court for having no petals; but it certainly shall not be called rosaceous; and my first point will be to make sure of my pupils having a clear idea of the central and unquestionable forms of thistle, grass, or rose, and assigning to them pure Latin, and pretty Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
- Flanking and behind us marched the giant batrachians, fivescore of them at least, black scale and crimson scale lustrous and gleaming in the rosaceous radiance; saucer eyes shining circles of phosphorescence green, purple, red; spurs clicking as they crouched along with a gait at once grotesque and formidable. The Moon Pool
- Special plant communities include rosaceous chaparral and oak-juniper woodlands. Proclamation On The Cascade Siskiyou National Monument
- La Pierina had already darted into the spacious porch whose lofty, vaulted ceiling was adorned with coffers displaying a rosaceous pattern. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
- Whatever they lost in the cessation of uncomfortable communion at the eyrie, or lair, of the Dragon was more than made up for by the sub-rosaceous, or semi-clandestine, character of the intercourse that was left. Somehow Good
- It is produced archipelago is pulled in Portuguese Ma De, belong to rosaceous arbor.
- The main aim is to provide some basis for the research of campus rosaceous plants.
- It produces its flowers in early summer, and when a good-sized bush, well covered with clusters of white blossoms resembling those of some species of Cratægus, it has a handsome appearance, and, like most other rosaceous shrubs, powerfully fragrant. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
- Flanking and behind us marched the giant batrachians, fivescore of them at least, black scale and crimson scale lus-trous and gleaming in the rosaceous radiance; saucer eyes shining circles of phosphorescence green, purple, red; spurs clicking as they crouched along with a gait at once gro-tesque and formidable. The Moon Pool
