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roseous

roseous

English

Adjective

roseous (not comparable)

  1. (formal) Rose-coloured.
    • 1829, Georges Cuvier, ‎Edward Griffith, The Animal Kingdom - Volume 7
      The colour of the feet is usually grey, but it is in some roseous, brown, or black.
    • 1956, Brunson P. Bliven, New Hemiptera from the Western States: With Illustrations of Previously Described Species and New Synonomy in the Psyllidae
      Color, in general, roseous, marked with various shades of red.
    • 1985, Smithsonian Institution Press, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Issues 406-412
      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.