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UK
/mˈɑːtən/
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[ US /ˈmɑɹtən/ ]
[ US /ˈmɑɹtən/ ]
NOUN
- agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels
How To Use marten In A Sentence
- Trip steels have a microstructure with retained austenite, ferrite and martensite.
- Inside, concourses and shop units are suitably smartened up to indicate the centre's new aspirations.
- Smarten up a summer outfit with a chic titfer. Times, Sunday Times
- The huddle of poor dwellings, too small to be named a village, clings plastered like martens' nests against rocks, high above a green river.
- 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
- If crows have become unwelcome guests, Martens recommends scare tactics, such as Mylar tape, pie tins, scary eye balloons, scarecrows, and auditory alarms.
- Finally, Neville Marten, how dare you dismiss the guitar as a mere machine?
- The Tongass supports brown bear, wolverine, northern goshawk, marbled murrelet, marten, Sitka black-tailed deer, the Alexander Archipelago wolf, and healthy runs of five salmon species.
- A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.
- Simon could have used a bit of grooming in smartening up his appearance as a wealthy young man.