stone marten

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   Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat

   Synonymsbeech martenMartes foina

   Broadermarten

Questions about stone marten

What does stone marten mean?

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

What is another word for stone marten?

Close synonyms include beech 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 stone marten a common word?

stone 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.