Mignonette Definition

mĭnyə-nĕt
noun
Any of a genus (Reseda) of plants of the mignonette family with thick stems and coarse foliage, esp. an annual plant (R. odorata) bearing terminal spikes of small greenish, whitish, or reddish flowers.
Webster's New World
A sauce of vinegar, pepper, and minced shallots, usually served with oysters.
American Heritage
Any of several similar plants.
Webster's New World
A pale, yellowish green.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Reseda odorata
  • sweet reseda
adjective
Designating a family (Resedaceae, order Capparales) of dicotyledonous plants and shrubs.
Webster's New World
Of a grey-green colour, like that of the plant.
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Other Word Forms of Mignonette

Noun

Singular:
mignonette
Plural:
mignonettes

Origin of Mignonette

  • French from feminine of mignonnet dainty, pretty from Old French diminutive of mignon lover, dainty

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French mignonette, from mignon (“dainty") + -ette (“diminutive suffix").

    From Wiktionary

Mignonette Sentence Examples

  • The carpellary leaves are sometimes united in such a way as to leave an opening at the apex of the pistil, so that the ovules are exposed, as in mignonette.

  • In the south, in the Julianehaab district, even flowering plants, such as aster, nemophilia and mignonette, are cultivated, and broccoli, spinach, sorrel, chervil, parsley, rhubarb, turnips, lettuce, radishes grow well.

  • There were many wild flowers on this walk, including wild mignonette and blue, or sometimes called Russian, comfrey.

  • Roses are grown in some places for the manufacture of atr, or attar of roses; mignonette, jasmine, thyme, lavender and other aromatic plants are favourites in Yemen, when the Arabs often stick a bunch in their head-dress.

  • Mignonette (Reseda) - The only species worth growing is R. odorata and its varieties.

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