mignonette, sweet reseda, Reseda odorata
(noun) Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mignonette (plural mignonettes)
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. [from early 18th c.]
A mignonette tree (Lawsonia inermis), source of the dye henna.
A mignonette vine
A greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
• (plant): reseda (one sense)
• (colour): reseda
mignonette (comparative more mignonette, superlative most mignonette)
Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
• reseda
Source: Wiktionary
Mi`gnon*ette", n. Etym: [F. mignonnette, dim. of mignon darling. See 2d Minion.] (Bot.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
