pine marten

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   dark brown marten of northern Eurasian coniferous forests

   SynonymsMartes martes

   Broadermarten

Questions about pine marten

What does pine marten mean?

pine marten means "dark brown marten of northern Eurasian coniferous forests".

What is another word for pine marten?

Close synonyms include Martes martes. 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 pine marten a common word?

pine 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.