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Marten


Definition:

  • (n.) A bird. See Martin.
  • (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.

Pekan


Definition:

  • (n.) See Fisher, 2.

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