| brown algae | algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments |
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 |
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 |
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 |
| chocolate | a food made from roasted ground cacao beans |
bitter chocolate
baking chocolate
cooking chocolate | pure unsweetened chocolate used in baking and icings and sauces and candy |
| chocolate candy | candy made with chocolate |
| chocolate liquor | the liquid or paste that is produced when cocoa beans are roasted and ground, the basis of all chocolate |
| chocolate bar | a bar of chocolate candy |
bittersweet chocolate
semi-sweet chocolate
dark chocolate | chocolate liquor with cocoa butter and small amounts of sugar and vanilla, lecithin is usually added |
| milk chocolate | chocolate made from chocolate liquor with sugar and cocoa butter and powdered milk solids and vanilla and (usually) lecithin, the most common form of chocolate for eating, used in chocolate candy and baking and coatings |
| white chocolate | a blend of cocoa butter and milk solids and sugar and vanilla, used in candy bars and baking and coatings, not technically chocolate because it contains no chocolate liquor |
| chocolate fudge | fudge made with chocolate or cocoa |
| chocolate kiss | a kiss that consists of a conical bite-sized piece of chocolate |
| truffle chocolate truffle | creamy chocolate candy |
| chocolate ice cream | ice cream flavored with chocolate |
| chocolate mousse | dessert mousse made with chocolate |
| chocolate pudding | sweet chocolate flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs |
| brown Betty | baked pudding of apples and breadcrumbs |
| chocolate eclair | eclair topped with chocolate |
| chocolate cake | cake containing chocolate |
chocolate chip cookie
Toll House cookie | cookies containing chocolate chips |
| 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 |