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MIGNONETTE
A plant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange-coloured stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is generally an annual grass. Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper.
Origin: F. Mignonnette, dim. Of mignon darling. See Minion.
Source: Websters Vocabulary