noun
1.
the partly ground husk of wheat or other grain, separated from flour meal by sifting.
verb (used with object)
2.
to soak or boil in bran water, as in the tanning of hides.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French bran, bren, of uncertain origin
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French bran, bren, of uncertain origin
Related forms
bran·ner, noun
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| —n | |
| 1. | husks of cereal grain separated from the flour by sifting |
| 2. | food prepared from these husks |
| Related: furfuraceous | |
| [C13: from Old French, probably of Gaulish origin] | |
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Word Origin & History
bran
c.1300, "the husk of wheat, barley, etc., separated from the flour after grinding," from O.Fr. bren "bran, scurf, scales, feces" (12c., Mod.Fr. bran), perhaps connected with Gaulish *brenno- "manure," or with burn. The word also was used 16c. in English for "dandruff flakes."
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Medical Dictionary
bran (brān)
n.
The outer layers of a cereal grain such as wheat, approximately 20 percent of which is indigestible cellulose, used as a source of dietary fiber.
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Example sentences
Make muffins using oatmeal, bran or whole-wheat flour.
No regimen of brown rice and broccoli for him, no wheat germ and bran.
Ordinarily, my breakfast of choice is a bran muffin, a food that not too long ago was considered the healthiest of health fare.
Company researchers said it was the active ingredient in oat bran and other fiber-rich foods.
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