mignonette – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
mignonette
n.
type of common garden plant with fragrant greenish-white flowers
Mignonette
Mignonette may refer to:
Plants
- Reseda, which is a genus of fragrant herbaceous plants
- Cultivars of butterhead-type Lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. capitata) such as 'Green mignonette' and 'Red mignonette'
- Mignonette tree, also called Henna
- Mignonette vine, Anredera cordifolia
mignonette
Noun
1. Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance
(synonym) sweet reseda, Reseda odorata
(hypernym) reseda
(member-holonym) genus Reseda
Mignonette
(n.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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