Noun

1. 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.
2. a grey-green colour, like that of the plant.

Quotations

• 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, 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 [...].