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Definition of Reseda
1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
Group relationships: Genus Reseda
Specialized synonyms: Mignonette, Reseda Odorata, Sweet Reseda, Dyer's Mignonette, Dyer's Rocket, Reseda Luteola, Weld
Definition of Reseda
1. n. A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.
Definition of Reseda
1. Noun. A plant with small grayish green flowers (''Reseda odorata''). ¹
2. Noun. Mignonette. ¹
3. Adjective. Of a greyish-green colour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reseda
1. a flowering plant [n -S]
Medical Definition of Reseda
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Reseda
Literary usage of Reseda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Hemiptera by John William Douglas, John Scott (1865)
"(I/rexes) reseda, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 296, 4 (1860). ... reseda, Stal, Vet. Akad.
Forhand. 213, 1 (1862). Il- -I reddish, base narrowly black ; often with 2 ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"One side of the vegetative point of the flower is furthered—either the side next
the chief axis, as in reseda, or the side farther away from this—there is a ..."
3. Experimental Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours: And by Edward Bancroft (1814)
"PART III. Of Vegetable Adjective Colours. CHAPTER I. Of the reseda Luteola,
Linn., or Weld Plant, and some other Vegetable Yellows. ..."
4. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany. edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1848)
"Remarks on the Period of Duration of reseda Luteola, Sfc. By GEORGE LAM'SON, Esq..
IN February of the present year, while walking along the railway ..."
5. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1798)
"CHAR. Leaves lanceolate, entire, with one tooth on each side at the base. Calyx in
4 segments. SYN. reseda Luteola. Linn. Sj). PI . 643. Huds. Fl. An. 207. ..."
6. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"Genus reseda reseda (Latin, reseda, to quiet, the plant having formerly been
thought to act as a sedative). A genus of about twenty-six alternate-leaved ..."
7. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"... as in reseda luteola (fig. 57), might equally well be placed with fission or
multiplication of the Fio. 57.—Branched inflorescence of reseda luteola. ..."
8. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"THIS plant is supposed to be an Egyptian, and to have been brought hither from
the South of France, where it is called reseda d'Egypte, ..."
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