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Definition of Beech marten
1. Noun. Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat.
Definition of Beech marten
1. Noun. ''Martes foina''; stone marten ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beech Marten
Literary usage of Beech marten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"The far of the beech marten is considered very far inferior to that of the Pine
Marten, and is known in the trade as the skin of the Stone Marten. ..."
2. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"and independently of the old orthography, leads one to think that possibly the
blunder of confounding the polecat with the beech-marten may not in reality ..."
3. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"beech marten, seldom producing above three or four at a birth, while the latter
... The head of this creature is smaller than that of the beech marten, ..."
4. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"... in his opinion, be fairly referred to the beech marten in its winter and summer
dress. The former had the long hairs of a fulvous brown, few iu number, ..."
5. The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated by Edward Turner Bennett (1830)
"The Pine Marten," he continues, " has the throat yellow, while that of the Beech
Marten is white; and the tints of colour are altogether more beautiful, ..."
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