Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Mignonette

Mignonette , noun

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

(Botany) 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.
Collocations (1)
Mignonette pepper , coarse pepper.