The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. Any of several Mediterranean plants of the genus Reseda, especially R. odorata, widely cultivated for its terminal, dense, spikelike clusters of very fragrant but inconspicuous greenish flowers.
n. 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.
n. A grey-green colour, like that of the plant.
adj. Of a grey-green colour, like that of the plant.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. 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.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A well-known plant, Reseda odorata, native in northern Africa.
n. Some other species of the genus Reseda.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance
Word Usage
"Either she would be very severe, flat back and front, or she would be tall, fair, dressed in mignonette green, name – Daisy, and smelling of rather sweetish lavender water."