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roseous

roseous adjective: rose-coloured.

Adjective

roseous (not comparable)

  1. (formal) Rose-coloured.
    • 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
    • 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

Origin of roseous

From Latin roseus, suffixed with -ous.

Words formed from roseous

Questions about roseous

What does roseous mean?
Roseous means rose-coloured.
What part of speech is roseous?
Roseous is an adjective.

Words near roseous in the dictionary

  1. roseolovirus
  2. roseoloviruses
  3. roseophage
  4. roseophages
  5. roseotoxin
  6. roseous
  7. rosepetal
  8. rosepetals
  9. Roser
  10. roseries
  11. Rosero

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