Mi·gnon·ette n.  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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 Reseda odorata
      n : 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]