Mignonette vs Reseda - What's the difference?
mignonette | reseda |
A plant () 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.
A grey-green colour, like that of the plant.
Of a grey-green colour, like that of the plant.
* 1919, (Ronald Firbank), (Valmouth) , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
As nouns the difference between mignonette and reseda
is that mignonette is a plant (species: 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 while reseda is any of various plants of the genus Reseda, having small grayish green flowers, including mignonette, species: Reseda odorata. and dyer's rocket species: Reseda luteola.As adjectives the difference between mignonette and reseda
is that mignonette is of a grey-green colour, like that of the plant while reseda is having a pale greyish-green colour.mignonette
English
(wikipedia mignonette) (Reseda ordorata)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- She wore a dishabille of mignonette -green silk and bead-diapered head-dress that added several inches to her height [...].
