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It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section I, J, K, and L by Project Gutenberg

Fran exclaimed, looking at him with starlike eyes and roselike cheeks, making the most fascinating picture he had ever beheld at midnight under a silver moon.

From Fran by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)

Loree mentally and uncharitably applied the last phrase to her visitor, though in her own roselike beauty, as yet untouched by time, she could have afforded to be generous.

From Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Stockley, Cynthia

The contrast between it and the basement of the new Asiatic Bank, the atmosphere of which was far from being roselike, was too much for his feelings.

From Psmith in the City by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)