Mi·gnon·ette n. 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.
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Reseda odorata
n : Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense
terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white
flowers having an intense spicy fragrance [syn: mignonette,
sweet reseda]