mignonette

Etymology


From, from +.

Noun

 * 1) A plant,, 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.
 * 2) A , source of the dye henna.
 * A
 * 1) A greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
 * A
 * 1) A greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: жълта резеда
 * Catalan: marduixí
 * Dutch: tuinreseda
 * Finnish: tuoksureseda
 * Galician: reseda
 * German: Garten-Resede
 * Irish: buí cumhra
 * Polish: rezeda wonna
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:


 * German:

Adjective

 * 1) Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
 * 2) * 1919,, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44:
 * She wore a dishabille of mignonette-green silk and bead-diapered head-dress that added several inches to her height.