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mignonette |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mignonette \Mi`gnon*ette"\, n. [F. mignonnette, dim. of mignon darling. See 2d {Minion}.] (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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mignonette n : Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance [syn: {sweet reseda}, {Reseda odorata}]
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