Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Mignonette

Mignonette , n.

[F. mignonnette, dim. of mignon darling. See 2d Minion.]

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.