Reseda Definition

rĭ-sēdə, -sĕdə
noun

Mignonette.

Webster's New World
Any of various Mediterranean plants of the genus Reseda, including the mignonette, having densely flowered terminal racemes and divided petals.
American Heritage
A grayish or dark green to yellow green or light olive.
American Heritage
adjective

Having a pale greyish-green colour. [from 19th c.]

Wiktionary
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Resedaceae.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Reseda

Noun

Singular:
reseda
Plural:
resedas

Origin of Reseda

  • From French réséda, from Latin resÄ“da, said by Pliny to be from resÄ“dāre (“to soothe").

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin Resēda genus name from Latin resēda a kind of plant used to reduce tumors

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Reseda Sentence Examples

  • The more common plants in the most characteristic part of this region in southern Arabia are Capparidaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and a few Leguminosae, a Reseda and Dipterygium; palms, Polygonaceae, ferns, and other cryptogams, are rare.

  • Watson further brought out the striking fact that the west and east of Britain each had species peculiar to it; the former he characterized as Atlantic, the latter as Germanic. The Cornish heath (Erica vagans) and the maiden-hair fern (Adiantum CapillusVeneris) may serve as instances of the one, the man-orchis (Aceras anthropophora) and Reseda lutea of the other.

  • Reseda lutea and odorata, many individuals sterile with their own pollen.

  • Mignonette (Reseda) - The only species worth growing is R. odorata and its varieties.

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Words Starting With

RRERES

Words Ending With

ADAEDA

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Words Starting With R and Ending With A

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With R6 Letter Words Ending With A