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remontant, a. and n.|rɪˈmɒntənt|
[a. F. remontant, pres. pple. of remonter to remount.]
a. adj. Of roses: Blooming a second time or oftener in a season.
b. n. A hybrid perpetual rose blooming more than once in a season. Also used (adj. and n.) of strawberry plants bearing fruit for a longer period than usual.
1883Century Mag. July 350/1 Beautiful white roses, whose places have not been filled by any of the usurping remontants. Ibid. 350/2 The Baronne Prévost..is now the oldest type among hybrid remontant roses. 1901Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 806/1 The Perpetual, or Remontant rose, as the French more correctly term it,..affords a succession, more or less continuous,..of bud and bloom. 1923J. H. McFarland Rose in Amer. ii. 21 The Hybrid Perpetual roses are also called Remontant. Both designations are misnomers so far as bloom is concerned. 1965E. B. Le Grice Rose Growing Complete xii. 170 Single, coarse, once-flowering climbers had, at least a thousand years ago, become many-petalled, or dwarf, or remontant (repeat-flowering). 1968R. Hay Gardener's Round 78 Plant the ‘remontant’ or perpetual strawberries to have a crop in the autumn. 1969Oxf. Bk. Food Plants 74/2 The perpetuals or remontants are an interesting group [of strawberries], which flower successively during the summer and produce fruit from July till October. 1979Guardian 13 Oct. 15/5 Cover remontant strawberries with cloches. |