sénevé
French, noun/sɛn.ve/
sénevé is spelled S-É-N-E-V-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written French, the 179,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sénevé is a French masculine noun meaning “mustard plant (technically), white mustard (Sinapis alba)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante crucifère, (Brassica nigra), dont la graine sert à faire la moutarde”.
What does sénevé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemustard plant (technically), white mustard (Sinapis alba)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante crucifère, (Brassica nigra), dont la graine sert à faire la moutarde. 2. Désigne aussi la moutarde des champs ou sanve, (Sinapis arvensis), voire la moutarde brune (Sinapis juncea). 3. Autre nom de la moutarde blanche (Sinapis alba ou Brassica alba) qui est une plante fourragère et mellifère, elle sert aussi à préparer de la moutarde. 4. Graine de cette plante.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de sénevé.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sénevé
- sénevés plural
- sènevé alternative
- sènevés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sénevé?
- /sɛn.ve/
- \sɛn(ə).ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sénevé in French?
sénevé appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).