Bruin
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Bruin is a folk term used for brown bears (from the Dutch bruin meaning brown). Bruin or Bruins or BRUIN may refer to the following:
Places
- Lake Bruin, ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River located in northeastern Louisiana
- Bruin, Kentucky, United States
- Bruin, Pennsylvania, United States
- Bruin's Slave Jail, building in Alexandria, Virginia
Sports teams
- Ayr Bruins, defunct ice hockey team
- Bellevue University's athletic teams are called the Bruins
- Belmont University's athletic teams are called the Bruins
- Boston Bruins, an American NHL hockey team
- UCLA Bruins, mascot of the sports teams of the University of California, Los Angeles
- Providence Bruins, an American AHL hockey team affiliated with the above NHL team
- George Fox University has a Bruin as the school mascot
- Salt Lake Community College's athletic teams are called the Bruins
- Bob Jones University's athletic teams are called the Bruins
- Piedmont International University's athletic teams are called the Bruins
- Kellogg Community College's athletic teams are called the Bruins
- Chilliwack Bruins former Canadian major junior ice hockey team
- New Westminster Bruins were a junior ice hockey team from the Western Hockey League
Other uses
- Bruin (surname)
- Oud bruin, Belgian beer
- Heineken Oud Bruin, Dutch beer
- Yamaha Bruin 350, utility all-terrain vehicle
- Brown University Interactive Language, a programming language
- Rasmus Klump, a comic strip published as Bruin
- Bruin, a brown bear in the Reynard cycle fables
See also
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