Definition of Reseda odorata

1. Noun. Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance.

Exact synonyms: Mignonette, Sweet Reseda
Group relationships: Genus Reseda
Generic synonyms: Reseda

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reseda Odorata

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Reseda odorata (current term)
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Literary usage of Reseda odorata

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"... and exactly resembles a sun ; and when it becomes dry again, it contracts itself, and closes by degrees f." MIGNONETTE. Reseda odorata. Ki:si'D,UTJ . ..."

2. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with by William Rhind (1857)
"There is a sub-biennial shrubby variety ot the reseda odorata, called tree mignonette, rather more odorous than the common sort, and which is well suited ..."

3. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom, by Charles Darwin (1889)
"Reseda lutea—grown in open ground Reseda odorata — self - fertilised j seeds ... Reseda odorata — self - fertilised seeds from a highly self-fertile plant, ..."

4. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin (1876)
"But no such result followed in either case: for instance, the crossed and self-fertilised offspring from a highly self-fertile plant of Reseda odorata were ..."

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