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Marten   /mˈɑrtən/   Listen
Marten

noun
1.
Agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels.  Synonym: marten cat.



Related searches:
American marten
beech marten
pine marten
stone marten
yellow-throated marten


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"Marten" Quotes from Famous Books



... their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man. The snow lies so late in the spring and the summers are so short and cool that agriculture does not prosper. As a home for the fox, marten, weasel, beaver, and many other fur-bearing animals, however, the coniferous forests are almost ideal. That is why the Hudson's Bay Company is one of the few great organizations which have persisted and prospered from colonial times to the present. ...
— The Red Man's Continent - A Chronicle of Aboriginal America, Volume 1 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Ellsworth Huntington


Words linked to "Marten" :   pine marten, sable, American sable, American marten, Charronia flavigula, genus Martes, Martes pennanti, Martes foina, fisher, yellow-throated marten, pekan, fisher cat, Martes, mustelid, Martes zibellina, Martes americana, Martes martes, musteline mammal, musteline, black cat


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