group grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
group practice | (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources |
biological research | scientific research conducted by biologists |
group therapy group psychotherapy | psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist, interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic |
bioterrorism biological terrorism | terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare |
biological defense biological defence biodefense biodefence | procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents |
biological warfare BW biological attack biologic attack bioattack | the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food |
biological warfare defense biological warfare defence BW defense BW defence | defense against biological warfare |
group action | action taken by a group of people |
group participation | participation by all members of a group |
cyanobacteria blue-green algae | predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll, occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats, important as phytoplankton |
planktonic algae | unicellular algae |
alga algae | primitive chlorophyllontaining mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves |
golden algae | algae having the pigments chlorophyll and carotene and xanthophyll |
yellow-green algae | any alga of the division Chrysophyta with its chlorophyll masked by yellow pigment |
confervoid algae | algae resembling confervae especially in having branching filaments |
brown algae | algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments |
fucoid fucoid algae | any of various algae of the family Fucaceae |
green algae chlorophyte | algae that are clear green in color, often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water |
red algae | marine algae in which the chlorophyll is masked by a red or purplish pigment, source of agar and carrageenan |
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 |
Adapid Adapid group | extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, their descendents probably include the lemurs, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
Omomyid Omomyid group | extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, probably gave rise to the tarsiers, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
brown bullhead | freshwater catfish of eastern United States |
brown trout salmon trout Salmo trutta | speckled trout of European rivers, introduced in North America |
bioweapon biological weapon bioarm | any weapon usable in biological warfare, they feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon |
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 |