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▪ I. genet1|ˈdʒɛnɪt|
Forms: 5 jonet, genete, 6 jennet, jenette, 7 ginnet, jenit, 6, 9 genette, 7– gennet, 8– genet.
[a. OF. gen(n)ete, -ette, jen(n)ette (F. genette) = Sp. and Pg. gineta, med.L. geneta (mod.L. genetta), a. Arab. jarnait.]
1. A kind of civet-cat, a native of southern Europe, western Asia, and Africa. The common species (Genetta vulgaris or Viverra Genetta) is found in the south of France.
1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 79 Tho cam forth many a beest anon, as the squyrel, the musehout, the fychews..the genete. 1572in Whitaker Hist. Craven (1812) 325 A black velvet gown..furred with squyrels, and faced with jenet's furr. 1619Middleton Love & Antiq. Wks. (Bullen) VII. 331 Those beasts bearing fur..The ounce, rowsgray, ginnet, etc. 1653A. Ross Πανσεβεια (1658) 345 Gennets, which are beasts like Spanish Cats in bigness, with long and slender snowts, their furres..do smell like those of Civit Cats. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. xiv. 234 The Dog Kind..the Dog, the Wolf..the Genet. 1859Tennent Ceylon II. ix. vi. 523 The palmyra becomes the resort of the palm-cat and the glossy and graceful genet.
†2. pl. The skins of the animal employed as fur for garments. Obs.
1418E.E. Wills (1882) 36 Also a gowne of gray russet furred wit Ionetis and wylde Catis. 1538Fitzherb. Just. Peas 121 b, The lorde Chaunceller..may weare..any maner furres, except blacke genettes. 1551Edw. VI in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) II. ii. ix. 319 No man..under an earl, not to wear sables, or black jennets, or cloth of silver. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 260/2 Sables, Jenits, Minks, and Filches [sic.] are reckoned by the Timber, which is 4 Skins. 1694E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. iii. ii. 385 Of Furrs, Filches [sic], Grayes, Jennets, [etc.] 40 Skins is a Timber.
b. The fur obtained from the genet; also an imitation of this, usually made from cat's fur.
1882in Ogilvie. 1890Daily News 27 Dec. 2/2 The cheapest fur for lining coats is gennet, black in colour and low in price. 1891Ibid. 24 Oct. 6/1 Lined with a less expensive fur, such as genet, musquash or squirrel.
3. attrib., as genet-cat, genet-skin.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 179 Of the Gennet⁓cat, called Genetha. 1677Charleton Exercit. de Diff. Anim. (ed. 2) 20 Genetta..the Genet, aut Genet-Cat. 1812–15Anne Plumtre tr. Lichtenstein's S. Afr. II. 15 The hyenas..eat up the carrion and diminish very much the thieving, mischievous apes, and the crafty genet-cats. 1890Daily News 25 Jan. 7/2, 244 sable skins, nine genet skins, and a skunk skin.
▪ II. genet2|ˈdʒɛnɪt|
Also 8 gennit.
[Perh. an abbreviation of jenneting; cf. genet-moil.]
A kind of apple.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Gennit, or Genniting, a kind of Apple which is ripe before any others. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Jenneting..2. [U.S.] A winter apple, Rawle's Genet.
▪ III. genet, n.3 Biol.|ˈdʒɛnɪt|
[f. genetic a., after *ortet n., ramet n.]
Any genetically distinct entity, such as may be produced by asexual reproduction from a single zygote. Cf. ramet n.
1973Sarukhán & Harper in Jrnl. Ecol. LXI. 677 The term ‘genet’ is used for the genetic individual (the product of a seed which may be a large clone) distinguished from the ramet, the functional unit in a vegetatively reproducing species. 1977J. L. Harper Population Biol. of Plants xviii. 521 Plants enter the winter with 2–5 tillers and the greater the number of tillers the greater the chance that the genet will survive the winter. 1985New Scientist 20 June 43/1 The possibility that a single tree, normally thought of as a genet, contains within its overall structure distinct genetic individuals adds new layers of complexity. 1988Biol. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XXXV. 16 Its life history depends on the level of organization under consideration; genets are perennial, ramets annual.
▪ IV. genet
obs. form of jennet. |