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  • The U.S. Department of Agriculture introduced the plate-shaped icon Thursday to replace the pyramid that often was criticized as confusing.

    Uncle Sam's Latest Menu Bill Tomson 2011

  • Aquatic communities include camalotes, primarily of the genus Eichhornia and Reussia, onagraceae like Victoria cruziana (irupé) with large plate-shaped leaves and white flowers with many petals; we also find Cyperus giganteus (pirí), Typha latifolia and T. Domingensis (totoras) and the beautiful blue-flowered pontederiacea Pontederia lanceolata (cucharero).

    Paraná flooded savanna 2007

  • The Kappa has the face of a monkey with the beak of a turtle and a plate-shaped depression in the top of his head.

    2008 June | Scary For Kids 2008

  • Capacitors consist of plate-shaped electrodes that store electricity by creating an electrical field between them.

    4 Technologies on the Brink 2007

  • The new Leopards created tidy, plate-shaped holes in paper targets, hitting bull's-eyes from 500 metres away.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • The new Leopards created tidy, plate-shaped holes in paper targets, hitting bull's-eyes from 500 metres away.

    Boom! 2007

  • There would originally have been a plate-shaped corona on either side of the head, also engraved with animals.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • There would originally have been a plate-shaped corona on either side of the head, also engraved with animals.

    Log of the Eclipse (11) Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • He learned that since 1947, when a pilot sighted a formation of plate-shaped objects flying over a mountain range in Washington State and coined the term

    Encounter Group Sapir, Richard & Murphy, Warren 1984

  • Ashe sorted through the plate-shaped containers of record wire.

    Galactic Derelict Norton, Andre 1959

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