'Mignonette' definitions:
Definition of 'mignonette'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, Reseda odorata]
Definition of 'Mignonette'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper. [1913 Webster]