Sekirov Dictionary

mignonette

/ˌmɪnjəˈnɛt/

noun5

  1. 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.
  2. A greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
  3. A mignonette tree (Lawsonia inermis), source of the dye henna.
  4. A mignonette vine.
  5. Short for mignonette sauce

adjective1

  1. Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
forms

mignonettes · more mignonette · most mignonette

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