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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2014-08-01 07:10 am

remontant

remontant (ri-MON-tuhnt) - n., blooming more than once a season.


Used especially of roses. Also, as a noun, such rose. Adopted from French in the early 1880s, from the present participle of remonter, to remount/rise again.

---L.

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