genet

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• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnɪt
• Homophone: jennet

From Middle English genet, ionet, from Anglo-Norman genette, Middle French genette, jenette et al., of uncertain origin.

genet (countable and uncountable, plural genets)

1. Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail.
2. The fur of this mammal, or any skin dressed in imitation of it.

Coined in the 20th century from gene +‎ -et.

genet (plural genets)

1. (biology) A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi, bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor; a group of ramets.

• ortet
• ramet

See jennet.

genet (plural genets)

1. A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 109-113:

     Because we come to do you service and you think we are ruffians, you’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse. You’ll have your nephews neigh to you. You’ll have coursers for cousins and gennets for germans.

• tenge

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic زَنَاتِي (zanáti), the tribe of the Zenata Berbers, exceptional horsemen. Cfr zenete, jinete.

genet m (plural genets, feminine geneta, feminine plural genetes)

1. rider, horseman

• “genet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• genen

genet n or m

1. definite neuter singular of gen

• genen

genet n or m

1. definite neuter singular of gen

genet m (plural genets)

1. alternative form of geneta