Adjective : rosaceous loveliness. From Dictionary.com.
'Grass-rose,' or put it out of court for having no petals; but it certainly shall not be called rosaceous; and my first point will be to make sure of my pupils having a clear idea of the central and unquestionable forms of thistle, grass, or rose, and assigning to them pure Latin, and pretty. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
Special plant communities include rosaceous chaparral and oak-juniper woodlands. From Wordnik.com. [Proclamation On The Cascade Siskiyou National Monument] Reference
Fruit tree virus infections of ornamental rosaceous trees and shrubs. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Some non-rosaceous trees and shrubs as hosts to nematode-borne viruses. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
La Pierina had already darted into the spacious porch whose lofty, vaulted ceiling was adorned with coffers displaying a rosaceous pattern. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3] Reference
Flanking and behind us marched the giant batrachians, fivescore of them at least, black scale and crimson scale lustrous and gleaming in the rosaceous radiance; saucer eyes shining circles of phosphorescence green, purple, red; spurs clicking as they crouched along with a gait at once grotesque and formidable. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Flanking and behind us marched the giant batrachians, fivescore of them at least, black scale and crimson scale lus-trous and gleaming in the rosaceous radiance; saucer eyes shining circles of phosphorescence green, purple, red; spurs clicking as they crouched along with a gait at once gro-tesque and formidable. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
He was gladdened and rejoiced in the good news and when the months of gestation were completed the labour-pains set in and she was delivered of a girl-child (praise be to Him who had created and had perfected what He had produced in this creation!), which was winsome of face and lovesome of form and fair fashioned of limbs, with cheeks rosaceous and eyne gracious and eyebrows continuous and perfect in symmetrical proportion. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Aromatic odors (terpenes, camphors, and the spicy, herbaceous, rosaceous, and almond series; the chemical types are well determined: cineol, eugenol, anethol, geraniol, benzaldehyde). From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
Magnolia glauca; among zanthoxylaceous plants, the Cuspare of Angostura, known in America under the name of Orinoco bark, and the Zanthoxylon caribaeum; among leguminous plants, the geoffraeas, the Swietenia febrifuga, the Aeschynomene grandiflora, the Caesalpina bonducella; among caprifoliaceous plants, the Cornus florida and the Cuspa of Cumana; among rosaceous plants, the Cerasus virginiana and the Geum urbanum; among amentaceous plants, the willows, oaks, and birch-trees, of which the alcoholic tincture is used in Russia by the common people; the Populus tremuloides, etc.; among anonaceous plants, the Uvaria febrifuga, the fruit of which we saw administered with success in the Missions of Spanish. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
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