(n.) Any one of several fur-bearing carnivores of the genus Mustela, closely allied to the sable. Among the more important species are the European beech, or stone, marten (Mustela foina); the pine marten (M. martes); and the American marten, or sable (M. Americana), which some zoologists consider only a variety of the Russian sable.
(n.) The fur of the marten, used for hats, muffs, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Might pine martens suppress other predators that affect capercaillies?
(2) In areas where there are lots of pine martens, there are lots of red squirrels," she said.
(3) Fisher and marten appeared to be the key hosts maintaining Trichinella in the Algonquin region, but transmission dynamics were unclear.
(4) It’s home to a quarter of a million people, about 150 elephants and a host of other wild animals ranging from bears and tigers to flycatchers and martens.
(5) Heart rate was relatively constant among martens; however, respiration varied widely (21 to 122 breaths per minute).
(6) I was transfixed by scholars such as Claire Pajaczkowska, who wore Doc Martens but were bringing us poststructuralism straight off the press.
(7) The erythrocytes in beech marten are clearly smaller in size and volume and have a lower mean corpuscular hemoglobin than the erythrocytes in mink and ferret.
(8) Trimingham complained about repeated references to her as "bisexual" and "lesbian" and insults about her appearance - including comments that she wore doc martens and had spiky hair.
(9) 3) The Martens-Mayer hardness test showed the highest value (10.82 x 10(4] in dentin cement (GDE) and the lowest (1.09 x 10(4] in propack (EPR).
(10) 48 males were obtained by breeeding wild nymphs collected from a Stone-marten, a Marten and a Fox.
(11) There might be no grey squirrel problem – in fact there might be no grey squirrels here at all – had pine martens not been eliminated across most of their range, primarily by gamekeepers.
(12) is experimentally obtained from cercariae, born into rediae and naturally produced by the snail Gabbia neumanni (Martens, 1898).
(13) Trichinosis was detected in wolves, foxes, martens, ferrets, domestic dogs, cats and gray rats.
(14) Though these episodes in martens are rare and tend to cease after 3-4 months, their significance in the epidemic should be considered locally during the final stage of control operations.
(15) An ELISA was developed using staphylococcal protein A linked with horseradish peroxidase for detecting IgG antibody of rabies virus in human and carnivore sera (80 human, 270 fox, 40 cat, 35 marten, 5 badger and 4 polecat sera were tested in the present work).
(16) In one post, Jack ponders how the beat cops of 15 years ago have evolved from Doc Martens-wearing, wooden-stick carrying plods into tooled-up, taser-wielding "imperial stormtroopers".
(17) Moreover, Swedish law professor Marten Schultz, who strongly supports Assange's extradition to Sweden, has said the same [my emphasis]: "The UK supreme court's decision means only that Assange will be transferred to Sweden for interrogation.
(18) This study demonstrates that FQ does not equal FP as several authors have reported (Bandi, 1972; Barry, 1979; Ficat and Hungerford, 1977; Hungerford and Barry, 1979; Reilly and Martens, 1972; Smidt, 1973).
(19) As the paper points out, “it would be unlikely that a low-density pine marten population could impact a high-density grey squirrel population by direct predation alone.” The second is that grey squirrels in the region haunted by pine martens are much thinner than those elsewhere.
(20) (Neilston, Renfrewshire) Mrs Margaret Isobel Marten.
Martin
Definition:
(n.) A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.
(n.) One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) The males had characteristic manifestations of the Martin-Bell syndrome.
(4) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.
(5) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(6) The human P-450 1 is 82% homologous to the s-mephenytoin 4-hydroxylase (Umbenhauer, D. R., Martin, M. V., Lloyd, R. S., and Guengerich, F. P. (1987) Biochemistry 26, 1094-1099).
(7) When Martin Luther King was assassinated, they sent state troopers to my high school in east St Louis.
(8) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
(9) There is Ed Sheeran , with a guitar and loop pedal, and Chris Martin leaping around the stage with the rest of Coldplay providing a dourer backdrop.
(10) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whether Sia, Jason Derulo, Coldplay’s Chris Martin or Sir Elton John is in the passenger seat, Corden plays the part of a real fan with a deep knowledge of their discography.
(12) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(13) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.
(14) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
(15) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(16) An 18-year-old mentally retarded male with the Martin-Bell syndrome was fragile X positive.
(17) Recent polls confirmed that Martin read the public mood right as a big majority put improved health and social services well above tax cuts.” Some of the counts across the 40 constituencies of the republic are expected to continue until Monday due to Ireland’s single transferrable vote system.
(18) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
(19) On Twitter, Jessica Martin said: “Cannot actually believe what’s happened!
(20) In a recent article , Martin Jacques comments on how New Labour, which built its fortunes on "there being no alternative", is now being forced into the humiliating circumstances of having to find one.