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Chinese dragon sculpture or statue.

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Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-06; in the Louvre, Paris, France. 77 x 53 cm.

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American bison (Bison bison) also known as buffalo or plains buffalo on the prairie, western U.S.

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Ruminant. Deer. Red deer. Cervus elaphus. Buck. Stag. Antlers.

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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) standing on rock, side view, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

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Alectoria

lichen

Also known as: Alectoride

Learn about this topic in these articles:

haustorium

In fungus: Form and function of lichens
Alectoria and Cladonia have haustoria that do not penetrate far beyond the algal cell wall. A few phycobionts, such as Coccomyxa and Stichococcus, which are not penetrated by haustoria, have thin-walled cells that are pressed close to fungal hyphae.
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