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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The specific name of the common pine-marten, used as a generic designation of the martens: same as Mustela.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun The genus of mammals including the martens.

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  • noun martens

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