bran

Meaning

Noun

• The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
• The European carrion crow.

Origin

• From Middle English bran, branne, bren, from Old French bren, bran, from Gaulish brennos, from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (compare Welsh braen, Irish bréan, Walloon brin), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (compare Latin fragrāre, Dutch brak).