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Brown (racial classification)
Brown (racial classification), including pardo in Brazil, the informal brown label for US Latinos and South Asian Americans, and colonial pardo/mestizo ancestry terms; distinct from White and Black categories and defined by phenotype or mixed ancestry.
Brown & Williamson
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation was an American tobacco company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, that introduced Kool and merged with R. J. Reynolds in 2004 to form Reynolds American.
Brown adipocyte
Brown adipocyte: thermogenic fat cell of brown adipose tissue (BAT), also called brown fat; burns glucose and fatty acids via UCP1-mediated mitochondrial uncoupling to produce heat, distinct from beige and white adipocytes.
Brown adipose tissue
Brown adipose tissue (BAT), or brown fat, is the mammalian thermogenic organ that burns glucose and fatty acids via uncoupling protein 1 to produce heat; rediscovered in adult humans by PET/CT in 2009 and studied as an obesity target.
Brown Advisory Global Managers
Brown Advisory Global Managers is a Baltimore-based private fund manager that files for a family of pooled alternative-investment funds run by Brown Advisory's fund-of-funds adviser.
Brown algae
Brown algae (Phaeophyceae) are multicellular marine seaweeds with chlorophyll a, c, and fucoxanthin; over 1,800 species including kelps, alginate- and fucoidan-rich cell walls, Ordovician origin, and major roles in kelp forests, food, and alginate production.
Brown anole
Brown anole (Anolis sagrei), Cuban brown anole: small West Indies trunk-ground lizard, first documented reptile introduction to Florida (late 1800s, Key West); invasive, displaces green anoles upward, high genetic variation from admixture.
Brown bear
Brown bear (Ursus arctos), also called grizzly in North America, a large omnivorous bear across Eurasia and northwestern North America; IUCN Least Concern, ~110,000 mature individuals, hibernates in winter dens, closely related to and genetically intermixed with the polar bear.
Brown Bess
Brown Bess, also known as the Land Pattern Musket, was the .75-caliber flintlock musket that served as the standard long gun of British land forces from the 1720s until the 1830s.
Brown bread
Brown bread: bread darker than white bread, made with whole wheat or rye flour, or sometimes just colored. Covers definitions, Boston and Irish brown bread, history, and nutrition versus white bread.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., also known as Brown Bros. Harriman, is a private banking partnership founded in 1818 and owned by its 38 general partners.
Brown County, Wisconsin, United States
Brown County, Wisconsin: county in northeastern Wisconsin, county seat Green Bay, created October 26, 1818 and named for Gen. Jacob Brown; fourth-largest Wisconsin county, 268,740 residents in 2020, 275,803 estimated 2025.
Brown Derby
The Brown Derby was a chain of four Los Angeles restaurants, founded in 1926 by Herbert Somborn, Wilson Mizner, and Sid Grauman and known for the Cobb salad.
Brown dwarf
A brown dwarf is a substellar object too low in mass to sustain hydrogen fusion, heavier than a gas giant but lighter than a star, cooling in infrared.
Brown Eyed Girl
"Brown Eyed Girl" (Van Morrison, 1967), originally "Brown-Skinned Girl": a Bert Berns-produced Bang Records single, No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, recorded on the 22nd take at A&R Studios, with no royalties paid to Morrison.
Brown Eyed Girls
Brown Eyed Girls (브라운아이드걸스), four-member South Korean girl group (JeA, Miryo, Narsha, Gain), debuted March 2006 with Your Story; second-generation act known for L.O.V.E and Abracadabra.
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Brown Girl, Brownstones is Paule Marshall's 1959 first novel, following Selina Boyce, daughter of Barbadian immigrants, growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and 1940s.
Brown hair
Brown hair, a common human hair color from moderate eumelanin in the hair shaft (also called brunette), is determined by MC1R and many other pigmentation genes; over 90 percent of people worldwide have brown or black hair.
Brown hyena
Brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea, strandwolf), a near-threatened scavenging hyena of the Kalahari and Namib deserts; solitary nocturnal forager in small clans, second largest hyena, fewer than 10,000 remain.
Brown marmorated stink bug
Brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys), an invasive East Asian pentatomid pest introduced to Pennsylvania in the mid-1990s, now established across North America, Europe, and Chile; polyphagous crop pest and household nuisance, managed with pheromone-based IPM and the samurai wasp.
Brown Mogotsi
Brown Mogotsi (Oupa Mogotsi), North West businessman and alleged political fixer tied to Senzo Mchunu and Cat Matlala; testified at the Madlanga Commission and Parliament's ad hoc committee, claiming a Crime Intelligence agent role, and was arrested in May 2026.
Brown Munde
Brown Munde is a 2020 Punjabi hip-hop single by AP Dhillon, Gurinder Gill, Shinda Kahlon, and Gminxr that topped the UK Asian chart and became Spotify India's most-streamed song of 2021.
Brown Nation
Brown Nation is a 2016 American sitcom, also called an Indian-American comedy, created by Abi Varghese, George Kanatt, and Matt Grubb. Ten episodes about Hasmukh Parikh's failing Queens IT firm premiered on Netflix November 15, 2016, the first independently financed show Netflix released globally.
Brown note
The brown note is a hypothetical infrasonic frequency of about 5–9 Hz, said to resonate in the digestive tract and cause loss of bowel control, an urban legend never demonstrated.
Brown pelican
The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a large seabird of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the Americas that catches fish by plunging head-first into the water.
Brown planthopper
Brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens (Stål), Delphacidae, is a rice-specific sap-sucking pest across Asia, Australia, and the South Pacific causing hopperburn, transmitting rice stunt viruses, and showing rapid insecticide resistance.
Brown rat
Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also called Norway rat, a large commensal rodent native to northern China, not Norway, spread worldwide in the 1700s, domesticated separately in Japan, Europe, and North America, and the main laboratory rat species.
Brown recluse spider
Brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa, fiddleback spider), a six-eyed Sicariidae spider native to the south-central United States whose sphingomyelinase D venom causes necrotic loxoscelism; bites are widely overdiagnosed outside its range.
Brown rice
Brown rice is whole-grain rice with only the hull removed, keeping the bran and germ; higher fiber (1.6 g/100 g cooked), GI about 65, more arsenic than white rice, and modest weight benefits in trials.
Brown sauce
Brown sauce, also called chippy sauce when diluted, is a British dark-brown fruit-and-spice condiment with tamarind, dates and malt vinegar; HP Sauce dominates about three-quarters of the UK market.