beech marten

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   Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat

   Synonymsstone martenMartes foina

   Broadermarten

Questions about beech marten

What does beech marten mean?

beech marten means "Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat".

What is another word for beech marten?

Close synonyms include stone marten, Martes foina. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beech marten a common word?

beech marten is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.