Tuesday 5th July 2016
Remontant \ /rɪˈmɒntənt/
Adjective
1. (esp of cultivated roses) flowering more than once in a single season
Noun
2. a rose having such a growth
Quote
I think she liked the rose's conviviality: the way it forms a natural complement to
other plants. She admired its fertility--its generous, remontant, fat-budded
fertility and easy propagation.
Elizabeth Buchan, Consider the Lily 1993
Origin
Remontant is borrowed from French, where it is the present participle of
remonter, "to remount." It entered English in the mid-1800’s.
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