| brown algae | algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments |
dusky shark
Carcharhinus obscurus | relatively slender blue-grey shark, nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters |
New World oriole
American oriole
oriole | American songbird, male is black and orange or yellow |
northern oriole
Icterus galbula | a kind of New World oriole |
Baltimore oriole
Baltimore bird
hangbird
firebird Icterus galbula galbula | eastern subspecies of northern oriole |
Bullock's oriole
Icterus galbula bullockii | western subspecies of northern oriole |
orchard oriole
Icterus spurius | the male is chestnut-and-black |
Old World oriole
oriole | mostly tropical songbird, the male is usually bright orange and black |
golden oriole
Oriolus oriolus | bright yellow songbird with black wings |
brown thrasher
brown thrush
Toxostoma rufums | common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage |
brown creeper
American creeper
Certhia americana | a common creeper in North America with a downurved bill |
| dusky salamander | common North American salamander mottled with dull brown or greyish-black |
brown snail
Helix aspersa | serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings, nearly cosmopolitan in distribution |
brown hyena
strand wolf
Hyaena brunnea | of southern Africa |
brown bear
bruin Ursus arctos | large ferocious bear of Eurasia |
Alaskan brown bear
Kodiak bear
Kodiak
Ursus middendorffi
Ursus arctos middendorffi | brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia |
| brown bat | any of numerous medium to small insectivorous bats found worldwide in caves and trees and buildings |
little brown bat
little brown myotis
Myotis leucifugus | the small common North American bat, widely distributed |
big brown bat
Eptesicus fuscus | rather large North American brown bat, widely distributed |
serotine
European brown bat
Eptesicus serotinus | common brown bat of Europe |
brown soft scale
Coccus hesperidum | pest on citrus trees |
brown lacewing
hemerobiid
hemerobiid fly | small darkolored lacewing fly |
browntail
brown-tail moth
Euproctis phaeorrhoea | small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States, pest of various shade and fruit trees |
brown rat
Norway rat
Rattus norvegicus | common domestic rat, serious pest worldwide |
| dusky-footed wood rat | a wood rat with dusky feet |
dusky-footed woodrat
Neotoma fuscipes | host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California |
brown lemming
Lemmus trimucronatus | of northwestern Canada and Alaska |
| Brown Swiss | large hardy brown breed of dairy cattle from Switzerland |
| brown bullhead | freshwater catfish of eastern United States |
brown trout
salmon trout Salmo trutta | speckled trout of European rivers, introduced in North America |
Brown University
Brown | a university in Rhode Island |
brown
brownness | an orange of low brightness and saturation |
| Vandyke brown | a moderate brown color |
chocolate
coffee
deep brown
umber
burnt umber | a medium brown to dark-brown color |
| light brown | a brown that is light but unsaturated |
dun
greyish brown
grayish brown
fawn | a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color, she wore dun |
reddish brown
sepia
burnt sienna
Venetian red
mahogany | a shade of brown with a tinge of red |
yellowish brown
raw sienna
buff
caramel
caramel brown | a medium to dark tan color |
| olive brown | a shade of brown tinged with green |
| brown study | a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness |
| brown sugar | unrefined or only partly refined sugar |
| brown Betty | baked pudding of apples and breadcrumbs |
| brown bread Boston brown bread | dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water |
dark bread
whole wheat bread
whole meal bread
brown bread | bread made with whole wheat flour |
| brown rice | unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer |
| brown sauce sauce Espagnole | bouillon or beef stock thickened with butter and flour roux and variously seasoned with herbs or Worcestershire etc. |
Chinese brown sauce
brown sauce | a sauce based on soy sauce |
Lyonnaise sauce
brown onion sauce | brown sauce with sauteed chopped onions and parsley and dry white wine or vinegar |
brown butter
beurre noisette | clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with vinegar or lemon juice and capers |
| Father Brown | a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton |