Brown
(superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. |
Brown
(n.) A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow |
Brown
(v. t.) To make brown or dusky. |
Brown
(v. t.) To make brown by scorching slightly |
Brown
(v. t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. |
Brown
(v. i.) To become brown. |
Brown bill
() A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. |
Brown thrush
() A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird |
Cream-fruit
(n.) A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice. |
Dove
() of Dive |
Dove
(n.) A pigeon of the genus Columba and various related genera. The species are numerous. |
Dove
(n.) A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. |
Dove-eyed
(a.) Having eyes like a dove |
Dove plant
() A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove |
Dove's-foot
(n.) A small annual species of Geranium, native in England |
Dove's-foot
(n.) The columbine. |
Fruit
(v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc. |
Fruit
(v. t.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. |
Fruit
(v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it. |
Fruit
(v. t.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them. |
Fruit
(v. t.) The produce of animals |
Fruit
(v. t.) That which is produced |
Fruit
(v. i.) To bear fruit. |
Fruit'y
(a.) Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit |
Grape fruit
() The shaddock. |
Hair-brown
(a.) Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green. |
Lesser
(a.) Less |
Lesser
(adv.) Less. |
Nut-brown
(a.) Brown as a nut long kept and dried. |
Sea dove
() The little auk, or rotche. See Illust. of Rotche. |
Seal-brown
(a.) Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed. |
Whity-brown
(a.) Of a color between white and brown. |
| brown algae | algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments |
lesser whitethroat
whitethroat Sylvia curruca | Old World warbler similar to the greater whitethroat but smaller |
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 |
lesser prairie chicken
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus | a smaller prairie chicken of western Texas |
| dove | any of numerous small pigeons |
rock dove
rock pigeon
Columba livia | pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended |
mourning dove
Zenaidura macroura | wild dove of the United States having a mournful call |
lesser scaup
lesser scaup duck
lake duck
Aythya affinis | common scaup of North America, males have purplish heads |
brown snail
Helix aspersa | serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings, nearly cosmopolitan in distribution |
lesser yellowlegs
Tringa flavipes | a variety of yellowlegs |
lesser rorqual
piked whale
minke whale
Balaenoptera acutorostrata | small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific |
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 |
fruit bat
megabat | large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit |
harpy harpy bat
tube-nosed bat
tube-nosed fruit bat | any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes |
| 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 |
fruit fly
pomace fly | any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits |
Mediterranean fruit fly
medfly
Ceratitis capitata | small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit |
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 |
lesser kudu
Tragelaphus imberbis | a smaller variety of kudu |
tamandua
tamandu
lesser anteater
Tamandua tetradactyla | small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and fourlawed forelimbs, of tropical South America and Central America |
| lesser ape | gibbons and siamangs |
lesser panda
red panda
panda bear cat
cat bear
Ailurus fulgens | reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore, in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas |
| 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 |
| fruit machine | a coin-operated gambling machine that produces random combinations of symbols (usually pictures of different fruits) on rotating dials, certain combinations win money for the player |
yield
fruit | an amount of a product |
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 |
bursa omentalis
omental bursa
lesser peritoneal cavity | an isolated part of the peritoneal cavity that is dorsal to the stomach |
| lesser omentum | a part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and liver and supporting the hepatic vessels |
rhomboid minor muscle
lesser rhomboid muscle
musculus rhomboideus minor | rhomboid muscle that draws the scapula toward the vertebral column and slightly upward |
| forbidden fruit | originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality) |