rosaceous Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Rosaceae
  2. adjective satellite of something having a dusty purplish pink color
    roseate; rose.
    • the roseate glow of dawn

WordNet

Ro*sa"ceous adjective
Etymology
L. rosaceus, fr. rosa rose.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) (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 tress, and quinces. (b) Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.
  2. Of a pure purpish pink color.

Webster 1913