roseous

English

Etymology

From Latin roseus, suffixed with -ous.

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 Synonymy in the Psyllidae:

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

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

     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.