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- Latin · borrowed frommontigena
- English todaymontigenous
Borrowed from Latin montigena (from mons, montis (“mountain”) + the root of gignō, genō (“to beget”)) + -ous. (Compare orogenous, -genous.)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
montigenous
Today it means: Pertaining to or native to mountains. Full definition →
Latin montigena