Meaning

(rare) Pertaining to or native to mountains..

Example Sentences

Asperula trifida Makino […] ¶ Perennial, 1–4 decim. high. Rhizome slender, long-creeping, rooting at the nodes. […] ¶ A montigenous species.

It seems a piece of the mountain, rock of its rock, wedged indistinguishably between the crags—itself a crag, but one over which the spirit has passed. Carved and placed as they are, the columns of this temple express the very essence of all this montigenous austerity and forsakenness.

There is an important difference between a boor ([…]), and an ignoramus ([…]). A boor is a person who not only is ignorant, but is also uncultured, with neither good manners ([…]) nor good personality traits ([…]). Rather he is like a montigenous creature, like a wild animal.

5.30 pm, 2FC, Roundabout: Open a bottle of Car Door to welcome Manuel [i.e., Manuel and the Music of the Mountains] and his montigenous minstrels as they descend from the peaks for this afternoon’s lively interlude.

The Trees that the colonists informed Oviedo existed in that land were pines, oaks, which yielded gall-nuts, evergreen oaks of acorns, vines of montigenous grapes, chestnuts (but the fruit was small), willows, cane like that of Spain, walnut trees, blue berries used for making raisins which the Indians dried and saved for winter.

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Use montigenous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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