Mignonette

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(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.

Noun

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mignonette - Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance Synonyms: Reseda odorata, sweet reseda

genus Reseda, reseda, Reseda odorata, sweet reseda