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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
brown fat
 
NOUN: A dark-colored, mitochondrion-rich adipose tissue in many mammals that generates heat to regulate body temperature, especially in hibernating animals.
 
 
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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  Browne, Sir Thomas brownfield  
 
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