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adj
Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A plant, Reseda odorata, having greyish-green flowers with orange-coloured stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.
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noun
A mignonette tree (Lawsonia inermis), source of the dye henna.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A mignonette vine.
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noun
A greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Short for mignonette sauce
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noun
Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sweet reseda, Reseda odorata
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Broader terms: reseda
History
From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Across languages
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