Meaning

1. kind, type
2. genre (one of three types of literature, lyric, epic or drama)
3. gender (system of noun concordance)
4. (colloquial) sex, gender (category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species)
5. genus (category in the classification of organisms)
6. (obsolete) generation (single step or stage in the succession of natural descent)
7. (obsolete) tribe; nation; people group
8. fertility
9. birth
10. family, house, bloodline
11. successor, offspring
12. ancestor, predecessor
13. social status
14. pedigree, line of kinship
15. kinship, affinity
16. origin
17. nature (that which is innate)
18. beginning
19. etymology (origin of a word)
20. harvest, yield (amount of gained food)
21. harvest, yield (food itself harvested)
22. generation; birth; Further details are uncertain.