ROSEATE

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.

2.
a.

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.


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