MIGNONETTE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mignonette family mean? 

• MIGNONETTE FAMILY (noun)
  The noun MIGNONETTE FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. mainly Mediterranean herbs: mignonette

  Familiarity information: MIGNONETTE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIGNONETTE FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mainly Mediterranean herbs: mignonette

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Resedaceae; mignonette family; Resedaceae

Hypernyms ("mignonette family" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "mignonette family"):

genus Reseda (Old World genus of herbs having racemose flowers: mignonette; dyer's rocket)

Holonyms ("mignonette family" is a member of...):

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)