montigenous

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin montigena (from mons, montis (“mountain”) + the root of gignō, genō (“to beget”)) + -ous. (Compare orogenous, -genous.)

Adjective

montigenous (not comparable)

1. (rare) Pertaining to or native to mountains.
   • 1903, T[omitaro] Makino, Observations on the Flora of Japan, Fasciculus 3, Tokyo, pages 38–39; reprinted from the Botanical Magazine, volume 17, Tokyo, 1903:

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

   • 1965, Nikos Kazantzakis, “Pilgrimage Through Greece” (chapter 17), in P. A. Bien, transl., Report to Greco, London: Bruno Cassirer (Publishers) Ltd, page 163:

     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.

   • 1979, Isaac ben Moses Magriso, Avoth: MeAm Loéz, Maznaim Publishing Corporation, page 83:

     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.

   • 1983 August 17, Doug Anderson, “Radio Choice”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 45,438, Sydney: John Fairfax and Sons Ltd., page 20:

     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.

   • 1998, Eloy J. Gallegos, Santa Elena: Spanish Settlements on the Atlantic Seaboard from Florida to Virginia, 1513 to 1607, Villagra Press, page 68:

     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.

Further reading

• “montigenous, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “montigenous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.