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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Prob. fr. a dim. of

Jean

John, so named as becoming ripe about St.

John’s

day, June 24. F.

Jean

is fr. L.

Johannes

. See

A variety of early apple. See

[Written also

geniting

Noun.

[said to be corrupted from juneting, an apple ripe in June, or at St. Jean.] A species of early apple.

jenneting ‎(plural jennetings)