mignonette
nounAny of several Mediterranean plants of the genus Reseda, especially R. odorata, widely cultivated for its dense racemes of small fragrant greenish flowers.
nounA sauce of vinegar, pepper, and minced shallots, usually served with oysters.
nounA well-known plant, Reseda odorata, native in northern Africa.
nounSome other species of the genus Reseda.
nounA plant (
coarse pepper.
nounA 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.
nounA grey-green colour, like that of the plant.
adjectiveOf a grey-green colour, like that of the plant.
nounMediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance