Grue

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Grue may refer to:

People

  • A pen name used by cartoonist Johnny Gruelle
  • Grue (surname), notable people with the surname Grue

Places

  • Grue, Norway, a municipality in Innlandet county
  • Isle-aux-Grues, an island in Quebec, Canada
  • Grues, Vendée, a commune in France
  • Grue (river), a river in north-west Italy

In fiction

  • Grue (monster), a fictional predatory creature invented by American author Jack Vance and featured in the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games
  • Grue (Freedom City), an alien race in the role-playing game Mutants and Masterminds
  • Grue/Brian Laborn, a supervillain in the web novel Worm

Other

  • Grue and bleen, portmanteau words formed from green and blue, coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate his new riddle of induction
  • Grue, a linguistic and translation concept (see Blue–green distinction in language)
  • Crane (bird), a bird from the Grue family
  • Grue, an influential science fiction fanzine published by Dean Grennell
  • An early form of Nutraloaf, a food served in prison, known as "grue" to prisoners in the Arkansas penal system as described in the 1978 Hutto v. Finney decision

See also

  • GRU (disambiguation)
  • Groo (disambiguation)
  • Grew
  • Grewe
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