Bruin, (from Dutch for "brown"), is an English folk term for
brown bear
The brown bear (''Ursus arctos'') is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America. Of the land carnivorans, it is rivaled in size only by its closest relative, the polar bear, which is much less variable in size and slightly bigger on av ...
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Bruin, Bruins or BRUIN may also refer to:
Places
* Lake Bruin, ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River located in northeastern Louisiana
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Lake Bruin State Park
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Bruin, Kentucky, United States
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Bruin, Pennsylvania, United States
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Bruin's Slave Jail, building in Alexandria, Virginia
Sports team nicknames and mascots
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Ayr Bruins, a defunct Scottish ice hockey team
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Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska
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Belmont University
Belmont University is a Private university, private Christian university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Descended from Belmont Women's College, founded in 1890 by schoolteachers Ida Hood and Susan Heron, the institution was incorporate ...
, Nashville, Tennessee
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Bob Jones University
Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. It is known for its Conservatism in the United States, conservative and Evangelicalism in the United States, evangelical cultural and religious posit ...
, Greenville, South Carolina
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Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston. The Bruins compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division (NHL), Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL), Eastern Conference. The t ...
, an American NHL hockey team
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UCLA Bruins
The UCLA Bruins are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Los Angeles. The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Big Ten Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF ...
, a collegiate sports team located in Los Angeles, California
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Chilliwack Bruins, a former Canadian major junior ice hockey team in Chilliwack, British Columbia
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George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon
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Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, Michigan
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New Westminster Bruins
The New Westminster Bruins were a Junior ice hockey#Major junior, major junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League. There were two franchises that carried this name:
* 1971–1981 (formerly the Estevan Bruins, now the Kamloops Blazers)
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, a former Canadian major junior ice hockey team in New Westminster, British Columbia
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Piedmont International University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Providence Bruins
The Providence Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Providence, Rhode Island. They are the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate of the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). They play at the Amica Mutual Pavilion.
Hi ...
, an American AHL hockey team in Providence, Rhode Island
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Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake County, Utah
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Sheridan College
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, formerly Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, is a public polytechnic institute partnered with private Canadian College of Technology and Trades operating campuses ...
, Brampton, Ontario
Other uses
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Bruin (surname)
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Oud bruin, Belgian beer
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Heineken Oud Bruin, Dutch beer
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Yamaha Bruin 350, utility all-terrain vehicle
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Brown University Interactive Language, a programming language
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Rasmus Klump
''Rasmus Klump'' (translates to ''Rasmus Lump'' or ''Erasmus Lump'') is a Danish comic strip series for children created in 1951 by the Danish wife-and-husband team Carla and Vilhelm Hansen. The series was translated into a number of foreign lan ...
'', a comic strip published as ''Bruin''
* Bruin, a brown bear in the
Reynard cycle
Reynard the Fox is a literary cycle of medieval allegorical Dutch, English, French and German fables. The first extant versions of the cycle date from the second half of the 12th century. The genre was popular throughout the Late Middle Ages, ...
fables
See also
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List of Bruin mascots
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Ursidae
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family (biology), family Ursidae (). They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats ...
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