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Definition of Rosaceous
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Rosaceae.
2. Adjective. Of something having a dusty purplish pink color. "The roseate glow of dawn"
Definition of Rosaceous
1. a. Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceæ) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces.
Definition of Rosaceous
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a ''rose'', or a member of the Rosaceae family of plants. ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling a rose. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rosaceous
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Literary usage of Rosaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller, Kate Grace Barber Winton (1916)
"Other rosaceous Fruits. The raspberry and blackberry are multiple drupes, the
small individual fruits agreeing in general structure with the true drupes. ..."
2. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1903)
"It has remained so ever since, although occasional rosaceous flushings have
occurred from time to time as the result of errors of diet. ..."
3. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"OF THE rosaceous FAMILY. IN the family of the Roses are included not only some
of the most beautiful ornaments of our gardens, but the principal, ..."
4. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"3d, rosaceous or rose-like corollas are composed of five short-clawed open petals;
as in the Rose (Pig. 57). •ith, Liliaceous flowers, like the Lilies, ..."
5. Leaflets of Botanical Observation and Criticism by Edward Lee Greene (1906)
"Certain rosaceous Genera. From the view of Potentilla, as a fair aggregate of
many sub- generic types—the view I ..."
6. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania by University of Pennsylvania Botanical Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Botanical Laboratory (1904)
"Structure of the Cork Tissues in Roots of some rosaceous Genera. By MARTHA BUNTING,
Ph.D. (With Plate ..."
7. Laboratory Exercises in Botany by Edson Sewell Bastin (1894)
"STUDY OF A rosaceous FLOWER. SELECTIONS may be made from the following common
plants : the Strawberry (Fragaria Virginiana, Mill. ..."
8. Lessons in the Structure, Life, and Growth of Plants, for Schools and Academies by Alphonso Wood, Oliver Rivington Willis (1889)
"3d, rosaceous or rose-like corollas are composed of five short-clawed open petals;
as in the Rose (Fig. 5 7). 4th, Liliaceous flowers, like the Lilies, ..."
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