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Rosaceous   Listen
adjective
Rosaceous  adj.  
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceae) 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.
(b)
Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.
2.
Of a pure purpish pink color.






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... 206,—Clitoria, Bonavia, 'Gard. Chron.,' 1868, p. 1013. In this latter communication, published as this sheet is passing through the press, the author gives an interesting account of the transitional stages between the ordinary papilionaceous condition and the regular form which is like that of a Rosaceous plant. The peloric form is stated ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters



Words linked to "Rosaceous" :   roseate, rose



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