Roseous

Origin

From Latin roseus, suffixed with -ous.

Full definition of roseous

Adjective

1. (formal) Rose-coloured.
• 1829, Georges Cuvier, ‎Edward Griffith, The Animal Kingdom - Volume 7The colour of the feet is usually grey, but it is in some roseous, brown, or black.
• 1956, Brunson P. Bliven, New Hemiptera from the Western States: With Illustrations of Previously Described Species and New Synonomy in the PsyllidaeColor, in general, roseous, marked with various shades of red.
• 1985, Smithsonian Institution Press, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Issues 406-412Parr (1927) described bulb color of the 78.1 mm holotype (sex undetermined) as having a "roseous" pear-shaped lobe and a "whitish" slimmer lobe.