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Bruin
From Encyclopedia Jr, free information reference for Kids
Bruin is a name for the brown bear (Ursos arctos), or for any bear, usually poetically or archaically.
The word entered the English language via William Caxton's 1485 translation of a Dutch version of the legend of Reynard the Fox. Bruin is the bear, named for his color; the Middle Dutch word for brown is bruun, while the current Dutch word for brown is actually bruin.
It is a popular nickname and mascot in sports. Some teams using this name include
Professional sports
Collegiate sports
- Belmont University
- Bellevue University
- Bethany University
- George Fox University
- Salt Lake Community College
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA Bruins)
High School sports
- Cherry Creek High School (Greenwood Village, Colorado) - Creek Bruins
- Ballard High School (Louisville, Kentucky) - Ballard Bruins
- Bethel High School (Virginia) (Hampton, Virginia) - Bethel Bruins
- Broadneck High School (Annapolis, Maryland) - Broadneck Bruins
- Brooke High School (Wellsburg, West Virginia) - Brooke Bruins
- Brookings-Harbor High School (Brookings, Oregon) - Brookings-Harbor Bruins
- Brunswick School (Greenwich, Connecticut)
- former Henry A. Bradshaw High School (Florence, Alabama) - Bradshaw Bruins
- Greenfield High School (Greenfield, California)
- Mountain View High School (Orem, Utah)
- Northrop High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
- Rock Bridge Senior High (Columbia, Missouri)
- Padua Franciscan High School (Parma, Ohio)
- Pulaski Academy (Little Rock, Arkansas)
- Sam Barlow High School (Gresham, Oregon)
- Santa Clara High School (Santa Clara, California)
- Saint Bede Academy (Peru, Illinois) - Saint Bede Bruins
- Twin Falls High School (Twin Falls, Idaho)
- Western Branch High School (Chesapeake, Virginia)
- Forest Park High School (Woodbridge, Virginia)
- Woodrow Wilson Classical High School (Long Beach, California)
Other uses
- Bruin, Pennsylvania is a borough of Butler County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
- Bruin Norns are a species of Norn in the a-life game, Creatures 3.
- BRUIN is an acronym for BRown University INteractive Language, a programming language developed at Brown University for the IBM System/360.
- BRUIN was also the name of the British Army's tactical communications system deployed in northwestern Europe from the 1960s to 1985.
- Bruin was the English name for the Danish comic Rasmus Klump
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