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Definition of Jennets
1. jennet [n] - See also: jennet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jennets
Literary usage of Jennets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fundamentals of Live Stock Judging and Selection by Robert Seth Curtis (1920)
"JACKS AND jennets. Structure.—The general structure of the domestic ass is very
much like the horse, although there are some features quite different. ..."
2. Western Live-stock Management by Ermine Lawrence Potter, Carl N. Kennedy, George Roy Samson, Oran Milton Nelson (1917)
"CHAPTER XXV JACKS, jennets, AND MULES THE mule is a hybrid produced from the
breeding of jacks ... jennets ..."
3. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1880)
"Purple pall and ermine free. Trapped to the ground with velvet bright. jennets of
Spain that ben so light, Ye shall have harp, ..."
4. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1890)
"If the producer would be more patient and hold his jennets back till the market
was ready to receive them he would realize much better prices, ..."
5. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1906)
"Tegetmeier and Sutherland give the height of the Poitou jack as 13^ to 15, and
of the jennets as 13 to 14 hands. In 1877 Richardson described the Poitou ass ..."
6. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1906)
"The rules of the American Breeders' Association of Jacks and jennets on the subject
... Up to January I, 1892, all jacks 14^ and all jennets 14 hands high, ..."
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