Category:Roseate

Ro"se*ate, a. Etym: [cf. L. roseus, rosatus, prepared from roses. See Roseal, rose.]

1. Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.

2. 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.