bran
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
bran
n 1: broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are
separated from the flour by sifting
2: food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bran \Bran\, n. [OE. bren, bran, OF. bren, F. bran, from Celtic;
cf. Armor. brenn, Ir. bran, bran, chaff.]
1. The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal
grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or
bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
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2. (Zool.) The European carrion crow.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "bran":
air pollution, attritus, bark, barley, bird seed, capsule, case,
cat food, chaff, chicken feed, chop, corn, corn shuck, cornhusk,
cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, dog food, dust, dust ball, eatage,
efflorescence, ensilage, fallout, farina, feed, filings, flour,
fodder, forage, grain, grits, groats, hay, hull, husk, jacket,
kittens, lint, mash, meal, oats, palea, pasturage, pasture, peel,
pet food, pod, powder, provender, pussies, raspings, rind, sawdust,
scratch, scratch feed, shell, shuck, silage, skin, slops, smut,
soot, straw, swill, wheat
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