pinecone

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Musk Thistle flowers are 1 1/2 to three inches wide with pinecone-like bracts below.

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  • On the table in front of them was a bird of paradise in a tall glass vase and some kinky-looking green thing like a pinecone, which, if you were to see it in National Geographic, you wouldn't be able to tell whether it was a plant or fish or huge insect. —  Hard News
  • In the past, space allowed only for the (fabulous) 3 ft. tall pinecone tree made by my grandfather. —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • Posted on: February 1, 2009 1: 00 PM, by Japanese pinecone fish searches for food with living headlights. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • But its potential hosts, the bobtail squid and the pinecone fish, are incredibly different animals, separated by over 550 million years of evolution. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • V. fischeri strains - MJ11 from the pinecone fish, and ES114 from the squid. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
 

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