Definition of genets Genets

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Noun Plural: genets
genet - agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail
		Genetta genetta
		viverrine, viverrine mammal small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World
genet - French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)
		Jean Genet
genet - French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834)
		Edmund Charles Edouard Genet, Citizen Genet

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genet (Noun)
Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail.
genet (Noun)
The fur of this mammal, or any skin dressed in imitation of it.
genet (Noun)
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.
genet (Noun)
A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet.

genet
Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail.
genet
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.

genet
Gennet. Same as Jennet
genet
jen′et, n. a carnivorous animal, allied to the civet, of a gray colour, marked with black or brown, a native of Africa, Asia, and Southern Europe: its fur, made into muffs and tippets.—Also Gen′ette. [Fr. genette—Sp. gineta—Ar. jarnait, a genet.]