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- Rosaceous - a. - Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceae) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces.
- Rosaceous - a. - Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.
- Rosaceous - a. - Of a pure purpish pink color.
- Silverweed - n. - A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.
- Quillaia bark - - The bark of a rosaceous tree (Quillaja Saponaria), native of Chili. The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with alkaline substances, and is used commonly by the Chilians instead of soap. Also called soap bark.
- Nine-bark - n. - A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia, / Spiraea, opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.
- Apple - n. - The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
- Pear - n. - The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.
- Rubus - n. - A genus of rosaceous plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.
- Tormentil - n. - A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.
- Corchorus - n. - The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens.
- Prunus - n. - A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.
- Kousso - n. - An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge.
- Pyrus - n. - A genus of rosaceous trees and shrubs having pomes for fruit. It includes the apple, crab apple, pear, chokeberry, sorb, and mountain ash.
- Lady's mantle - - A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.