Word.ws English Dictionary

Marans

Marans noun: a small breed of chicken originating in France popular for poultry shows and its eggs, rather than for its meat. Also the plural of Maran.

marans: a small breed of chicken originating in France popular for poultry shows and its eggs, rather than...
Image: seppingsR, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

Marans (plural Marans)

  1. A small breed of chicken originating in France popular for poultry shows and its eggs, rather than for its meat.
    • The Marans breed deserves inclusion in this review of utility poultry, because of the superb rich brown colour of its eggs.1962, C. Arthur Pearson, Pictorial Poultry-Keeping, 2nd edition, Cox & Wyman, page 39

Also used as

Marans is also the plural of Maran.

Forms of Marans

pluralMarans

Questions about Marans

What does Marans mean?
Marans means a small breed of chicken originating in France popular for poultry shows and its eggs, rather than for its meat.
What part of speech is Marans?
Marans is a noun.
What is the plural of Marans?
The plural of Marans is Marans.

Words near Marans in the dictionary

  1. Maranoa Heights
  2. maranoia
  3. Maranon
  4. Maranons
  5. Maranos
  6. Marans
  7. maranta
  8. marantaceous
  9. Marantao
  10. marantas
  11. marantic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Marans (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Marans.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/marans. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.