reseda

Meanings

Noun

• 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).
• Mignonette (Reseda odorata).
• A pale greyish-green colour like the flowers of a reseda plant; mignonette.

Adjective

• Having a pale greyish-green colour like the flowers of a reseda plant; mignonette.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• dyer's rocket
• mignonette
• weld

Origin

• From French réséda, from Latin resēda, said by Pliny the Elder (23–79 ) to be from resēdāre, from re- + sēdare (from sēdō), an allusion to the healing properties of the plant.