1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. roseus

Find the word definition

What is "roseus"

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Related phrases:
Wikipedia
Roseus

Roseus is a Latin adjective meaning rose, rosy or pink.

Lucretius used the word to describe the dawn in his epic poem On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura). 1 The word is also used in the binomial names of several species.

Related phrases:

Usage examples of "roseus".

With the discovery that alkaloids from Catharantus roseus shrunk tumors from Hodgkin's disease, Darby had entered a race with other commercial labs, convinced that miracle drugs grew on trees.