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  • She led the way to a small private garden of plants with stalks bearing hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers.

    Pet Peeve Anthony, Piers 2005

  • (The Greek name _cystópteris_ means bladder fern, so called in allusion to the hood-shaped indusium.) (1) THE BULBLET BLADDER FERN

    The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

  • Indusium hood-shaped, fixed centrally behind the sorus and arching over it, soon withering, often illusive.

    The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

  • The flowers have a two-parted, deciduous calyx, six unequal cream-colored petals, and numerous stamens united into a broad, hood-shaped mass, those at the base being fertile, and the upper ones sterile.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 Various

  • The volcanic tube identified by the TMC comprises two cobra hood-shaped rilles, the longer one measuring 3.65 km in NE-SW direction and the smaller one measuring 0.73 km.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • The volcanic tube identified by the TMC comprises two cobra hood-shaped rilles, the longer one measuring 3.65 km in NE-SW direction and the smaller one measuring 0.73 km.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • The volcanic tube identified by the TMC comprises two cobra hood-shaped rilles, the longer one measuring 3.65 km in NE-SW direction and the smaller one measuring 0.73 km.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • The volcanic tube identified by the TMC comprises two cobra hood-shaped rilles, the longer one measuring 3.65 km in NE-SW direction and the smaller one measuring 0.73 km.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

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