roseate vs salmon

roseate

• Like the rose flower; pink; rosy. 

• Excessively optimistic. 

• Full of roses. 

salmon

• Having a pale pinkish-orange colour. 

• To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street. 

• One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn. 

• A meal or dish made from this fish. 

• snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout) 

• The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat. 

• A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.