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Musteline mammal
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marten
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES pine marten COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN pine ▪ The rabbits you are after may already have been bolted by natural predators such as stoats, weasels, mink and pine martens . ▪ Rising populations of pine martens are ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., "skin or fur of the marten," from Old French martrine "marten fur," noun use of fem. adjective martrin "of or pertaining to the marten," from martre "marten," from Frankish *martar or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *marthuz (cognates: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. Any carnivorous mammal of the genus ''Martes'' in the family ''Mustelidae''. Etymology 2 n. (archaic form of martin nodot=yes English) (the bird)
Usage examples of marten.
Lysie was claimed by Marten of Argon, the man she assaulted and robbed.
The harts and hinds in their herds, the boars in their singulars, the skulks of foxes, the richesses of martens, the bevies of roes, the cetes of badgers and the routs of wolves: all came to him more or less as something which you either skin or flayed and then took home to the cook.
They spoke reverently of forest food webs, of chickarees and insects and mule deer, of coyote and bobcat and pine marten and black bear, of ravens and kinglets and owls, of chickadees and sapsuckers and juncos and woodpeckers.
She remembered lying in her starched bed, her hair in two pigtails, clutching the Raggy that her dead mother had made her, listening to the martens twittering under the caves.
The tracks of foxes, wolves, wolverenes, and martens, were very numerous.
The heels of the Doc Martens drummed up and down as the punker writhed and gurgled in the agony of death for nearly a minuteto the horrified dismay of his fellow prisoners.
Naskapis were obliged to spend part of their time trapping furs, mainly marten, whether or not they preferred to hunt caribou.
And so the Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibway members of Crane, Catfish, Loon, Bear, Marten and Wolf Clans came to participate in the Ghost Dance ceremony.
Marie Dorothee, of the age of twenty-three, was examined and declared a girl by Hufeland and Mursina, while Stark, Raschig, and Martens maintained that she was a boy.
Yet he could be brave, too, and when the Marten, sailing out of Rigolet, ran aground, he personally commanded the rescue boats that saved cargo and passengers-though not the captain, who committed suicide rather than face the wrath of the HBC Governor.
Crees lolled in their wigwams, when less labor fell to Siena, he set traps in the snow trails for silver fox and marten.
Indian staggered forward, Siena recognized the robe of silver fox and marten, his gift to Emihiyah.
Instead she wore a patchwork dress over her jeans and Doc Martens, stuffed the wig inside a drawer, and headed to a small bar on Inverness Street.
He wore the uniform of academia: corduroy jacket fastened high to the neck, with worn and faded elbow patches, stone-washed denims, black Doc Martens and tortoiseshell round-rim glasses.
La Serenissima had need of it, marten skins and civet, and amber from the Chowat.