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  • The Lynnwood bear was described as a brown-colored black bear, and Hebner believes it was a "sub-adult" bear, a 1- or 2-year-old that had been kicked out of its den by its mother.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • The Lynnwood bear was described as a brown-colored black bear, and Hebner believes it was a "sub-adult" bear, a 1- or 2-year-old that had been kicked out of its den by its mother.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • In the not very thick woods are beautiful coas (Trogon), misanthropic birds: very loud and agile blue jays (Corvus), which perch on the elevated trees, moving their long tails, and also brown-colored birds (Cuculus cayanus).

    Did you know? The first scientific account of Lake Chapala comes from 1839 2009

  • In the not very thick woods are beautiful coas (Trogon), misanthropic birds: very loud and agile blue jays (Corvus), which perch on the elevated trees, moving their long tails, and also brown-colored birds (Cuculus cayanus).

    Did you know? The first scientific account of Lake Chapala comes from 1839 2009

  • And some germs need a stronger attack than others: On this fall day, Preas tells ICU nurses to post new brown-colored warning signs on the rooms of people with diarrhea, a possible sign of an intestinal superbug named Clostridium difficile, or C-diff.

    Hospital infections fought by new 'preventionists' 2010

  • And some germs need a stronger attack than others: On this fall day, Preas tells ICU nurses to post new brown-colored warning signs on the rooms of people with diarrhea, a possible sign of an intestinal superbug named Clostridium difficile, or C-diff.

    Hospital infections fought by new 'preventionists' 2010

  • Division spokesman Michael Seraphin said the brown-colored North American black bear was tranquilized and later euthanized after Swendsen identified it.

    Is 'Liberal Interventionism' Dead? 2009

  • For example, Juan Flavier, a family planning official in the rural Philippines, found that villagers understood that when chicken hens ate the brown-colored seeds of the iping-iping tree, they stopped laying eggs.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995

  • All that brown in the ocean (aerial shot of brown-colored stream in the Gulf), soil that could be rebuilding the wetlands the way it used to, before we interfered with Mother Nature.

    Voice of the Wetlands Festival 2008, Part 2: Passion for Music and the Wetlands 2008

  • In this example, the next step was resist printing. reference All but the areas to be dyed blue were covered with a wax — here brown-colored. reference Again the whole cloth was immersed in the color; the dye adhered only to the exposed areas of the cloth.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

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