bran vs straw

bran

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. 

straw

noun
  • A dried stalk of a cereal plant. 

  • A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. 

  • Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions. 

  • Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing. 

  • A drinking straw. 

verb
  • To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost. 

adj
  • Made of straw. 

  • Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. 

  • Imaginary, but presented as real. 

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