marten

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One of the largest of the latter is the pine marten, which is still found in remote and uninhabited parts of our country.

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  1. noun Any of several principally arboreal carnivorous mammals of the genus Martes, related to the weasel, mainly inhabiting northern forests, and having a slender body, bushy tail, and soft fur.
  2. noun The fur of one of these carnivorous mammals.

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  • One of the largest of the latter is the pine marten, which is still found in remote and uninhabited parts of our country. —  Chatterbox, 1906
  • In other countries the marten is hunted for its skin, the fur of which is scarcely less valuable than that of the sable. —  Chatterbox, 1906
  • A spotted animal, somewhat like a marten: a badge of Queen JOANNA of Navarre George, Saint. —  The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • The silver fox and the marten are no longer safe when their traps and snares are set. —  The Young Fur Traders
  • I soon recognised it to be a marten, and was just going to fire, when I perceived another creature coming out of a hole hard by. —  Afar in the Forest
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  1. Middle English martrin, marten, from Old French martrine (from feminine of martrin, pertaining to the marten, from martre, marten) and from Medieval Latin martrīna, both of Germanic origin.

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  1. Formerly also martin; early modern English martern, martrone (properly the fur of the marten, orig. adjective: see marterin), for earlier marter, martre, from French martre, marte = Provencal mart = Spanish Portuguese marta = Italian martora, from Middle Latin martus, marturis, mardarus, mardalus, mardarius, Latin martes (found but once, in a doubtful reading), of Teut, origin: Old High German marder, Middle High German marder, mader, German marder = Dutch marter (with formative -r), = Old High German mart = Anglo-Saxon mearth = Icelandic mördhr = Swedish mård = Danish maar, a marten; no Gothic (Moesogothic) form recorded.
 

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