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A plant, Reseda odorata, having greyish-green flowers with orange-coloured stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.

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mignonette

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Source Word

mignonette

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˌmɪnjəˈnɛt/

Noun

A plant, Reseda odorata, having greyish-green flowers with orange-coloured stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.

Japanese Meaning

ミニョネット：灰緑色の花とオレンジ色の雄しべを持ち、芳香を放つ植物。アフリカでは低木型となり、北部では通常、一年生の草本植物として見られる。

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She tucked a sprig of mignonette into the vase to fill the room with its delicious fragrance.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は部屋をその芳しい香りで満たそうと、香りの良い植物レセダ・オドラータの一枝を花瓶に差し入れた。

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A plant, Reseda odorata, having greyish-green flowers with orange-coloured stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.

After amusing herself for a brief time with picking to pieces some mignonette which filled a box on the window-sill, Marie threw the flowers from her, and exclaimed,—"And here we are seated together, as we used to talk away half the night in Italy. Good Heavens! how we are altered!"

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