genet

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She forgot all about the long female would-be slayer of her children, and the genet was mightily thankful to drag herself clear, but she would not have been she if she had failed to get her fangs home, as a parting shot, before she went Then, I fancy, she was ill; and, upon my soul, I don't wonder.

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  1. noun Any of several Old World carnivorous mammals of the genus Genetta, having grayish or yellowish fur with dark spots and a long ringed tail.
  2. noun Variant of jennet.

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  • Many deserted except for the brave one and his genet. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • It also draws on behavioral ecology, arti - ficial intelligence, genet - ics, ethology, anthropology, archaeol - ogy, biology, and zoology. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • She forgot all about the long female would-be slayer of her children, and the genet was mightily thankful to drag herself clear, but she would not have been she if she had failed to get her fangs home, as a parting shot, before she went Then, I fancy, she was ill; and, upon my soul, I don't wonder. —  The Way of the Wild
  • But the male genet was not ill, or, if he was, he was moving from place to place too quickly to give the fact away; and by the time he shot up a tree, like a long, rippling, cream and tawny-dappled, banded line, he left that polecat considerably redder than when he found her, and weak, as if she had been bitten by leeches. —  The Way of the Wild
  • Perhaps she knew that only a genet, or a mongoose, could do that trick in a manner at once so machine-like and precise; and after that she merely sat, bent in a curve, with her lips up. —  The Way of the Wild
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French genete.

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  1. Formerly also gennet, jennett, genette; from Old French genette, French genette, from Spanish gineta, Portuguese gineta, geneta (Middle Latin geneta, New Latin genetta), a genet, from Arabic jarneit (Dozy), a genet.
 

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