roseous

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adjective

Rose-coloured.

OriginLatin roseus →
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Meanings

adjectiveroseous (not comparable)
  1. formalnot comparableRose-coloured.

    Color, in general, roseous, marked with various shades of red.

    1956, Brunson P. Bliven, New Hemiptera from the Western States: With Illustrations of Previously Described Species and New Synonymy in the Psyllidae
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    The colour of the feet is usually grey, but it is in some roseous, brown, or black.

    1829, Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, The Animal Kingdom - Volume 7

    Parr (1927) described bulb color of the 78.1 mm holotype (sex undetermined) as having a "roseous" pear-shaped lobe and a "whitish" slimmer lobe.

    1985, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Issues 406-412, Smithsonian Institution Press

Origin

  1. Latinroseus
  2. Englishroseous

From Latin roseus, suffixed with -ous.

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