marten
noun
mar·ten
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plural marten
or martens
Definition of marten
1
: any of several semiarboreal slender-bodied carnivorous mammals (genus Martes) of the weasel family that occur in the northern hemisphere
2
: the fur or pelt of a marten
Examples of marten in a Sentence
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Thomas asked them to redesign the project, with an eye to protecting marten habitat. — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, "A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires," 19 Aug. 2019 The group includes martens, weasels, badgers, honey badgers, otters, and sea otters. — National Geographic, "As wolverines battle to survive, warming poses a new threat," 11 July 2019 The marten’s head dates from the same period as the painting and is in the exhibition. — Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, "The Pure Portraitist," 9 May 2019 In Alberta, Frey found that the American marten, a carnivore which is mostly nocturnal in the wilderness, has become much more active in the daytime in the busier Kananaskis Country. — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, "Humans Are Turning Mammals More Nocturnal," 14 June 2018 The Canadian Rockies hold a huge number of carnivores—wolves, cougars, wolverine, lynx, coyote, marten, and smaller weasels. — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, "Humans Are Turning Mammals More Nocturnal," 14 June 2018 Now, the exhibit has acquired a prized specimen—a stone marten that hopped the fence at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva and fried itself to death. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Museum Displays the Weasel that Brought Down Particle Physics," 1 Feb. 2017 The story included a map of the range of pine martens, which showed that populations lived in the area of a controversial iron mining site in Ashland and Iron counties. — Lee Bergquist, Twin Cities, "Wisconsin governor targets DNR’s venerable magazine for extermination," 15 Feb. 2017 He was convicted of a gross misdemeanor in 2007 for illegally taking or possessing pine marten, otter, fisher or wolverine in a 2004 incident, according to court records. — Sam Cook, Twin Cities, "Wolf snared, tipping MN DNR to 600 illegal traps, charges say," 14 Mar. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'marten.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for marten
marten
noun
English Language Learners Definition of marten
: a small animal that is related to the weasel and has soft gray or brown fur
: the fur of a marten
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marten
noun
mar·ten
| \ ˈmär-tᵊn
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Kids Definition of marten
: a slender animal related to the weasel that has soft gray or brown fur and often climbs trees
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