mignonette

noun

Any of several Mediterranean plants of the genus Reseda, especially R. odorata, widely cultivated for its dense racemes of small fragrant greenish flowers.

noun

A sauce of vinegar, pepper, and minced shallots, usually served with oysters.

noun

A well-known plant, Reseda odorata, native in northern Africa.

noun

Some other species of the genus Reseda.

noun

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.

noun

coarse pepper.

noun

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.

noun

A grey-green colour, like that of the plant.

adjective

Of a grey-green colour, like that of the plant.

noun

Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance