BRAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bran mean? 

• BRAN (noun)
  The noun BRAN has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: BRAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("bran" is a kind of...):

chaff; husk; shuck; stalk; straw; stubble (material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds)

Holonyms ("bran" is a substance of...):

bran (food prepared from the husks of cereal grains)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Food prepared from the husks of cereal grains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("bran" is a kind of...):

fiber; roughage (coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis)

Meronyms (substance of "bran"):

bran (broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting)

 Context examples 

Unlike refined grains, which undergo extensive milling or other processing, whole grains are sold for consumption with their bran and other constituents intact—all rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber, carbohydrates, and phytonutrients.

(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Alpha-lipoic acid is made by the body and can be found in foods such as organ meats, spinach, broccoli, peas, brussel sprouts, and rice bran.

(Alpha-lipoic acid, NCI Dictionary)

It may be, too, that I spoke somewhat shortly concerning the bran and the beans, the same being poor provender and unfitted for a man of my inches.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Glucose uptake nearly tripled in mice fat cells exposed to red rice bran extracts and more than doubled with purple rice bran extracts.

(Colored Rice May Brighten the Menu for Diabetics in the Future, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

An arabinoxylane polysaccharide composed of the hemicellulose-Beta extract of rice bran, treated with enzymes from Shiitake mushrooms, that exerts antitumor and antiviral activity by increasing the level of natural killer cells activation.

(MGN3, NCI Thesaurus)

It is found in beans, peas, brown rice, wheat bran and nuts.

(Inositol, NCI Dictionary)

Then he entered the back room and took up a measure of bran, which he mixed with a great many pins and needles.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

In that position I could easily have my way with him, and as the habit of tragical adventures had worn off almost all my terror for the dead, I took him by the waist as if he had been a sack of bran and with one good heave, tumbled him overboard.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

While these results showed promise in using red and purple bran extracts to regulate glucose uptake in mice fat cells, additional research with humans is needed to verify the same positive effect.

(Colored Rice May Brighten the Menu for Diabetics in the Future, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Item, that having been told by the master of the novices that he should restrict his food for two days to a single three-pound loaf of bran and beans, for the greater honoring and glorifying of St. Monica, mother of the holy Augustine, he was heard by brother Ambrose and others to say that he wished twenty thousand devils would fly away with the said Monica, mother of the holy Augustine, or any other saint who came between a man and his meat.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)