2 definitions found From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: mignonette noun: 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}] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Mignonette \Mi'gnon*ette"\, noun [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.

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