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The focus will be on pavilions from more than 190 nations, spread on two sides of the Huangpu River, that include Britain's pin cushion-like light box, a purple worm-shape tent from Japan and the U. S.'s $61 million movie theater styled like a catamaran.
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In the drier, higher mountains to the east, species of Raoulia and Haastia (Asteraceae) have developed into distinctive woolly, cushion-like forms ( 'vegetable sheep').
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Dense cushion-like growths of leaf succulents such as Salsola spp.,
Kaokoveld desert 2008
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The mosses grow in cushion-like, spongy mats often associated with cotton grass and willow shrubs.
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The dominant ecological life forms are compact turf or cushion-like plants.
Kazakh steppe 2008
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It slipped under the egg, catching the falling object deftly on a cushion-like attachment between its wings, and then struck off briskly toward the east.
The Sky Is Falling Lester Del Rey 1954
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Arolium - ia: cushion-like pads on the tarsi of many insects: one of the lobes of the pulvillus; in Orthoptera, used only for the terminal pad between the claws: see empodium; pulvillus; palmula; plantula; onychium, paronychium, pseudonychium.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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-- A small, cushion-like plant, with a stem never more than 1½ in. across by about 1 in. in height, so that it has the appearance of a small, flattened ball, with a raised, disk-like portion on the top.
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-- A small, cushion-like kind, with the stems in tufts, owing to their producing offsets freely from the base, the tallest of them being about as high and as thick as a man's thumb.
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In the early months of the year few subjects in the garden present so gay an appearance as Aubrietias, for with the first approach of genial weather the cushion-like plants burst into a mass of delightful blossom.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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