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Reseda

/ɹɪˈsiːdə/

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).

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📖 Definitions of "Reseda"

noun

1
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).
2
(specifically) Mignonette (Reseda odorata).
3
A pale greyish-green colour like the flowers of a reseda plant; mignonette.

adjective

1
Having a pale greyish-green colour like the flowers of a reseda plant; mignonette.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Reseda"

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mignonettenoun	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.
yellow-weednoun	Invasive flowering plants with yellow features:
weldnoun	A town in Franklin County, Maine, United States, named after Benjamin Weld.
rosinweednoun	Any of various composite plants which secrete resins or have a resinous smell; for example, several species in the genus Silphium in the composite family.
resinweednoun	Synonym of rosinweed.
rosidnoun	(botany) Any rose-like flowering plant.
koelreuterianoun	(botany) Any plant of the genus Koelreuteria.
dyer's rocketnoun	A European plant once used to make a yellow dye, weld (Reseda luteola)
minionettenoun	(uncountable, US printing, typography, dated) A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.
desert rosenoun	A flowering plant of species Adenium obesum, native to Africa and the Middle East; a common ornamental.
redweednoun	Red poppy (Papaver rhoeas).
reednoun	(countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
rosewortnoun	The roseroot, Rhodiola rosea.
retamanoun	(botany) Any of the genus Retama of flowering bushes.
iresinenoun	(botany) Any of the genus Iresine of flowering plants in the amaranth family.
xyridnoun	Any of several North American plants, of the genus Xyris, resembling sedges.
restionoun	(botany) Any member of the family Restionaceae of perennial, evergreen, rush-like flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere.
rosebednoun	A flowerbed where roses are grown.
reseedernoun	Any plant that reproduces by reseeding after a fire
retemnoun	A shrub with white flowers, possibly Retama raetam; the juniper of the (King James Version) Old Testament.