rose, roseate, rosaceous
(adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color; “the roseate glow of dawn”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
roseate (comparative more roseate, superlative most roseate)
(formal, mostly, zoology) Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.
Synonyms: pink, pinkish, rosy
Full of roses.
• roastee, tea rose
Source: Wiktionary
Ro"se*ate, a. Etym: [Cf. L. roseus, rosatus, prepared from roses. See Roseal, Rose.]
1. Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.
2. resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips. Roseate tern (Zoöl.), an American and European tern (Sterna Dougalli) whose breast is roseate in the breeding season.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
