mignonette(n = noun.plant) reseda odorata, sweet reseda - Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance;
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. [1913 Webster]
Mignonette, n.
1 a any of various plants of the genus Reseda, esp. R. odorata, with fragrant grey-green flowers. b the colour of these.
2 a light fine narrow pillow-lace.