Reseda

Quick meaning: Reseda is a noun meaning (botany, horticulture, specifically) Mignonette (Reseda odorata).

Meaning

(botany, horticulture, specifically) Mignonette (Reseda odorata).

More Meanings

1. A pale greyish-green colour like the flowers of a reseda plant; mignonette.
2. Having a pale greyish-green colour like the flowers of a reseda plant; mignonette.
3. (botany) Any of various plants of the genus Reseda having small, pale grayish green flowers, such as dyer's rocket (Reseda luteola) and mignonette (Reseda odorata).

Example Sentences

Reſeda […] An herbe that hath a ſtalke like knots and joynts, a leafe like a nettle, and white in the middle.

By mixing a weaker bath than the one indicated the cotton dyes up a dark green, and the wool acquires a dull and weak reseda shade.

Sateens a 1s. 4½d., 32in. wide, will be very useful, and always look nice, whether as whole or part dresses. There is one of French grey that has a most satin like surface, and another of reseda shade, which is again likely to have a run as a fashionable colour.

Reseda or mignonette is grown in the Grasse region [of France]. The tendency for green notes in recent years has given fresh interest to the reseda note. Absolute oil of reseda has an odour recalling that of violet leaves, but with a rather fine 'powdery' background and a suggestion of rose and a little basil.

Word Forms

• resedas

Related Words

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