mignonette : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mignonette	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mignonette
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mignonette n Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance Synonym(s): mignonette, sweet reseda, Reseda odorata
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mignonette \Mi`gnonette"\, n. [F. mignonnette, dim. of mignon darling. See 2d {Minion}.] (Bot.) A plant ({Reseda odorata}) having greenish flowers with orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. {Mignonette* pepper}, coarse pepper.