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mignonette

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Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

mi=gnon=ette

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun mignonette has 1 sense

mignonette(n = noun.plant) reseda odorata, sweet reseda - Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance; Array

is a member of genus reseda

is a kind of reseda

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CIDE DICTIONARY

mignonette, n. [F. mignonnette, dim. of mignon darling. See 2d Minion.].

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. [1913 Webster]

Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

mignonette, n.
1 a any of various plants of the genus Reseda, esp. R. odorata, with fragrant grey-green flowers. b the colour of these.
2 a light fine narrow pillow-lace.

Etymology

F mignonnette dimin. of mignon small

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